Employee Quotes - Page 38

• The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Soldier

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• An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

  Kip Tindell

  Fun, Smart, Achievement

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• (A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'

  James Hunter

  Eye, Appreciate, Mind

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.109, Crown Business

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• To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

  James Hunter

  Talking, Organization, Healthy

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• It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they are treated fairly, decently, and with dignity than when they are used and taken for granted, when they feel like no more than a tiny cog in a giant corporate wheel.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Taken, Office, Giants

  Wayne D. Dosick (2000). “The Business Bible: 10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values Into the Workplace”, p.48, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

  Judy Woodruff

  States, County, Federation

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• Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Giving, Decision

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

  Christine Lagarde

  Strong, Linkages, Company

  "Christine Lagarde: Facing down worldwide recession". "Christine Lagarde" with Lara Logan, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. November 21, 2011.

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• A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

  Twyla Tharp

  Leadership, Numbers, Goal

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Warrior, Thinking, Boss

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• We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Healthy, Want

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 144), 1986.

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• I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

  Akio Morita

  School, Past, Records

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 145), 1986.

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• I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

  Akio Morita

  Trying, Made, Company

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 148), 1986.

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• I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.

  Kristi Noem

  Running, Thinking, Giving

  "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class". Interview with Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  Jose Saramago

  Senior, Morning, Mean

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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• Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Encouragement, Want, Advantage

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• We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Creative, Different, Needs

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• Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Careers, Waiting, My Time

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• When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Years, People, Bankers

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• ...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.

  Dan Ariely

  Running, Business, Technology

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• It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

  Steig Larsson

  Stupid, Security Systems, Theory

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• Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.

  Nalini Singh

  Tired, Cutting, Flames

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.727, Penguin

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• Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Children, Eye, Gun

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• This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

  Richelle Mead

  Winning, Games, Soul

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.50, Kensington Books

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• Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Kansas, Bully

  "Saddled with student debt? Welcome to America's screwed generation" by Natalia Antonova, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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