Employee Quotes - Page 34

• Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Motivational, Independent, Suffering

  "Computing Science: Achievements and Challenges". Edsger Dijkstra's keynote address at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in San Antonio, Texas, www.cs.utexas.edu. March 1, 1999.

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• High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Space

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• Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

  Devin Nunes

  Government, Offering, Example

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• To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

  Devin Nunes

  Congress, Taxpayers, Transparency

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• The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

  Wang Jianlin

  Principles, Command, Basic Principles

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• This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

  Gregory Balestrero

  America, Training, United States

  "American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Integrated Manufacturing". Manufacturing Review v.3 no. 1-3, 1990.

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• Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Jobs, Training, Productive

  "NACE International". Materials Performance, 1990.

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• Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Responsibility, Company, Train

  Graduating Engineer. v.12 1990/1991 McGraw-Hill, 1990.

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• The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Past, Years, People

  Public power, Volume 48. American Public Power Association, 1990.

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• It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

  Kanye West

  Hate, Boss, World

  "Kanye West to L.A. Trade-School Grads: It's a 'Tough World' When You're 'the Absolute Best'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 30, 2015.

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• The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Political, Tasks

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• Developing great employees attracts great customers.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Customers, Developing

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• Employees are the key to your success with customers. Treat them well!

  Ron Kaufman

  Keys, Service Culture, Treats

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• Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Service Culture, Care, Winner

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• As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

  Campbell Scott

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a giving library where we give away books to employees and visitors that we think will help with their growth, both personally and professionally. I can't wait to add The Compound Effect to our library.

  Tony Hsieh

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

  Jack Kemp

  Money, Creating, Firsts

  Jack Kemp (1991*). “Secretary Jack Kemp Addresses the National Alliance of Business: Getting America and the World Moving Again : Democractic Capitalism in a New Millennium of Freedom : Washington, D.C., October 7, 1991”

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• We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  People, Population, Use

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Loyalty, Morning, School

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.

  Queen Latifah

  People, Able

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• The CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, married one of the Enron secretaries this week. It's amazing how romantic these Enron guys can be when they realize that wives can't be forced to testify against their husbands. Skilling said today she was the best secretary Enron had ever had. She could shred 950 words a minute. ... I guess they are on their honeymoon right now. That's going pretty well. Hey, he's used to screwing Enron employees.

  Jay Leno

  Husband, Wife, Guy

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• Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Creative, Leader, Energy

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• Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Numbers, People, Dollars

  "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.

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• I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

  Bill Ford

  Tobacco Industry, Proud, Danger

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