Employee Quotes - Page 27

• The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

  Tom Peters

  Motivation, People, Common

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Unions, Employers

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.212, Best Books on

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• Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!

  Jim Ross

  Austin, Months, Steve Austin

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• The makeup of the drivers has changed a lot with so many young drivers coming and a lot of the legends moving on. Compared to when I started, it's gone through a lot of changes. The cars have changed a lot and the approach to racing. There are a lot more employees. It's become a much bigger business and more corporate.

  Matt Kenseth

  Moving, Makeup, Car

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

  Adam McKay

  Running, People, Belief

  Source: collider.com

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• Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Two, Apples

  "Steve Jobs: Apple founder's moving speech on why being fired from tech giant was the best thing to happen". www.independent.co.uk. February 24, 2016.

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• If employees aren't satisfied, they won't promote the product we need.

  Herb Kelleher

  Needs, Satisfied, Products

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• If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Creating, Corporations

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.

  Alice S Rossi

  Sex, Men, Equal Pay

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.391, UPNE

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• A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Self, Healthy

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Fire, Wells, Customers

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• The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Impact, Two

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• You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Creativity, Way, Treats

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• The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.

  Jack Ma

  Two, Numbers, Three

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• I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

  Miranda July

  Real, Boss, Trying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Dream, Real, Government

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• John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]

  Martin Burns

  Jobs, College, Skills

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• The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Track, Ponds

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster!

  Jay Leno

  Beer, Garden, Two

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• Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Government, Speaks Out

  "Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

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• When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, Apples, Band

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• By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.

  Robert Bork

  Mean, Defense, Facts

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• One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?

  Nick Clegg

  Real, Giving, Growth

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