Employee Quotes - Page 29

• Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Weakness, Waste

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• With all my employees, I listen to them, trust in them, believe in them, respect them and let them have a go! I never believe I know better than they do and have been fortunate over the years to build up a very strong management team whom I can trust and take advice from.

  Richard Branson

  Strong, Team, Believe

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.

  Richard Branson

  Responsibility, Asking Questions, Ideas

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

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• Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Want, Entrepreneurship

  Source: thetartan.org

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• Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, People, Empowering

  Source: thetartan.org

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• If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.

  Fred Reichheld

  Educational, Answers, Wonder

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• We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Fall

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• Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.

  John Replogle

  Practice, Suffering, Cost

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• I feel constantly the tension of the quarterly cycles, the drive to produce shareowner value at the cost sometimes of customer value and employee value. [But] if you take equal care of the employees, they will take equal care of the customers and then we will get an equal or better opportunity for our shareowners.

  Marilyn C. Nelson

  Business, Opportunity, People

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• Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

  Tom Kelley

  Play, Innovation, Culture

  Tom Kelley (2016). “The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm”, p.296, Profile Books

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• Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Real, Lying

  "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The employees of the year, yeah we back to work.
  I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

  Erick Sermon

  Rap, Years, Hip Hop

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• While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.

  Christopher Galvin

  Regret, Reality, Impact

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• When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.

  Robert Reich

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Wages, Management, Increase

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• I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears as much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.

  E. B. White

  Jobs, Fear, Party

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

  Jack Welch

  Senior, Team, People

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• The number one use case for social media among our customers is around innovation - innovating with employees and with customers. For most businesses this is going to deliver the highest ROI.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, Numbers, Innovation

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• We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, Effectiveness, People

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• If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

  Richard Branson

  Insightful, Needs, Looks

  "Richard Branson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

  Dale Dauten

  Jobs, Sorry, Home

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• I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

  Robert Reich

  Country, Jobs, Business

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• I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

  Charles Koch

  Wish, Legacy, Earth

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• The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company that's growing fast. Shareholders made a lot of money. If you invested $25,000 from January 1987 to January 1994, you'd have more than a million dollars. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from that.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Money, Moving, Dollars

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• It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

  Howard Schultz

  Ironic, Retail, Benefits

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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