Employee Quotes - Page 36

• Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?

  Joe Biden

  Responsibility, Community, Corporations

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Men, Issues, Mind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Office, Employers, Left Behind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The principles that apply to engagement for employees are the same as those that apply to supervisors.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Principles, Engagement, Supervisors

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.

  William Bligh

  Leadership, People, Groups

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• When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

  Michele Bachmann

  Two, Issues, Way

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• Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

  Marissa Mayer

  People, Want, Young

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• Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Want, Outcomes, Opinion

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• Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

  John Podhoretz

  Father, Talking, Boss

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• I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

  John C. Reilly

  Perfect, Actors, Dependable

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• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  Eric Ries

  Simple, Names, Giving

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• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  Salman Rushdie

  Servant

  "Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels". www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2011.

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• It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

  Howard Schultz

  Wall, Media, Trying

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• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Curves, People, Population

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• I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

  Michael Symon

  Running, Crazy, Should

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• American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

  Andrew Weil

  Struggle, Pay, Bills

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Motivation, Issues, Culture

  "Why Businesses Need to Reshape Society" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  Sal Albanese

  Political, Abuse, Campaigns

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• The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Age, Stopping, Peers

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Machines, World

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.

  Terry Pratchett

  Care, Months, Messages

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• You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Children, Old Job

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.138, Random House

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• The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Hands

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• I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Toppers, Today

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