Employee Quotes - Page 33

• Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

  David Rock

  Technology, Average, Office

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• Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

  Paul Cookson

  Technology, Design, Website

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• I've never quite been a peer of Donald [Trump]. When I knew him it was more in a social way. We were single at kind of the same time. You know having fun in that sense, but I've watched his career with great admiration, and now to really see him as an employee sees him as an aspirant within the corporate structure of the Trump enterprises is really fascinating.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Fun, Careers, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Creativity, Hands

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Organization, Minorities

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• I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want.

  Li Ka-shing

  Want, Knows

  "Shantou University Business School Economic Forum". Q&A session at Shantou University, www.lksf.org. May 11, 2001.

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• Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

  David Ulevitch

  Up Early, People, Incentives

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• Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

  Ricardo Semler

  Effort, Growth, Profit

  "The doughnut dimension" by Charles Handy, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2005.

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• The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

  Ricardo Semler

  Giving, Way, Profit

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• Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.

  Jack Tretton

  Team, Passion, Commitment

  "Jack Tretton To Step Down As President And CEO Of Sony Computer Entertainment America". Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., www.prnewswire.com. March 06, 2014.

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• It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

  Henry Ford

  Usual, Speak, Partners

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Games, Ideas

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

  Warren Farrell

  Boss, Female, Like Her

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Discrimination, Employers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.

  Charles A. Reich

  Organization, Rights, Government

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Winning, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workplace. What I get is that where employees are well treated, employers do well.

  Bill Shorten

  Leader, Done, Unions

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.

  Bill Shorten

  Agreement, People, Records

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

  Bill Shorten

  Unions, Pay, Preference

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they're irreconcilable. I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces.

  Bill Shorten

  War, Believe, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

  Akio Morita

  Fate, Healthy, Feelings

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 103), 1986.

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• We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

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• The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.

  Scott Weiss

  Lasting Impressions, Months, Firsts

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• Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Cash Flow, Healthy

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• You have to treat your employees like customers

  Herb Kelleher

  Treats, Customers

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