Employee Quotes - Page 37

• She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

  Billie Letts

  Sleep, Alarms, Three

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• Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

  Joko Beck

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

  John Piper

  Mother, Jesus, Father

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• you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Government, Space, People

  A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.

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• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  Ned Vizzini

  Distance, Doctors, Hands

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• I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.

  Michael Symon

  Years, Wife, Foundation

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• I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

  Jan Brewer

  Believe, Government, People

  "Q&A: Gov. Jan Brewer reflects on session's lessons". Interview with Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, www.azcentral.com. May 26, 2012.

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• When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

  Mario Batali

  Cutting, Eggplant, Soul

  "Making a Meal with Mario Batali". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 15, 2005.

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• I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

  Emily Deschanel

  Jobs, New York, Father

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• The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.

  Boomer Esiason

  Football, Usa, Organization

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• A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

  Robert Fisk

  Letting Go, Looks, Should

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• I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

  Trey Gowdy

  Jobs, Judging, Bonus

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

  Marc Andreessen

  Tools, Needs, Internet

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.

  Larry Wall

  Trying, Arbitrary, Want

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• So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Government, Long, Labels

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.

  Amy Klobuchar

  People, Would Be, Benefits

  "Klobuchar, Franken outline specifics on their health-care views". Interview with Cynthia Dizikes, www.minnpost.com. September 2, 2009.

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• If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Fire, Boss

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• As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Organization, President, Dollars

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• Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

  Steven Pressfield

  Independent, Artist, Thinking

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

  David Rubenstein

  Father, Thinking, America

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• I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

  Stuart Rose

  Wish, Different, Gone

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

  Stuart Rose

  Running, Hate, Successful

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• I didn’t try to intimidate anybody. I wanted to inform my employees of what their future would hold if they make the wrong decision. I wasn’t threatening any of the employees. If they vote for Obama they’re not going to lose their jobs.

  David A. Siegel

  Worry, Choices, Needs

  "David Siegel: ‘I Didn’t Try To Intimidate’ Employees With Anti-Obama Email" by Harry Bradford, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

  Don Tapscott

  Community, Partners, Multiple

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

  Matt Mullenweg

  San Francisco, Work Out, Factories

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