Turnover Quotes

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  Carlton Fisk

  Sports, Play, Turmoil

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• One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Doors, Losing, Symptoms

  "Building a winning boardroom team". www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

  Fred L. Turner

  Business, Groups, Management

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• Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

  Billie Jean King

  Home, Men, Tennis

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• I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

  Robert Carlyle

  Directors, Television, Problem

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

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• If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Mean, Giving, Community

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• I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

  Bob Brown

  Community, Democracy, Depth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Focus, Cost, Guests

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• There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."

  Layne Beachley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

  Nick Ferguson

  Years, Able, Lasts

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• What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!

  Ricky Gervais

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "The Office / Downsize". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.

  Masaaki Imai

  Taken, Keys, Long

  Source: blog.deming.org

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• Anytime I mess up, even if it's a simple turnover, that affects me.

  Seimone Augustus

  Simple, Mess, Ifs

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Wages, Management, Increase

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• Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Hard Work, People

  Steve McConnell (1996). “Rapid Development”, p.297, Microsoft Press

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• When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, Pockets, Cost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Games, Play, Balls

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, Games, People

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• We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Running, Block

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• The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Thinking, Problem

  "McQueen Leaves Fashion in Ruins" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.

  Benjamin Zablocki

  Years, Community, Membership

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• They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Rapids, Involvement

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• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  Karl Marx

  Duration, Determined, Individual

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Salary, Would Be

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.19, Vintage

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• I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

  Jason Silva

  Children, Digital Revolution, Rate

  Source: www.politico.com

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