Employees Quotes

During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare.

~ Indy Bissessur

A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer, it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.

~ Beth Ramsay

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

~ Robert G. Thompson

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.

~ Robert G. Thompson

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.

~ Amit Kalantri

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

~ Denise Moreland

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Poor people do not go on holiday, they go home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.

~ Julie Winkle Giulioni

Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation, some use it merely to conceal their nipples.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, I am a mechanic. At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

~ A. Ashley Straker

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

~ Warren Buffett

As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!

~ Steven Magee

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

~ Steven Magee

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

~ Gyan Nagpal

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

We are on a mission to win the hearts and minds of our employees.

~ Vern Dosch

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.

~ Julie Winkle Giulioni

When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less.

~ Christina Engela

The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

~ Vineet Nayar

I have more than 6670 employees spread across the length and breadth of the country who live and experience the brand 'Bajaj Allianz' everyday. I'd like to believe that these people are the company's most valued brand ambassadors.

~ Tapan Singhel

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours.Ranette: Your mansion isn't safe?Wax: My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my studyRanette: Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

~ Herb Kelleher

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

~ Andy Warhol

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

~ James Sinegal

I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.

~ Mitt Romney