Employees Quotes

Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have.

~ Sam Altman

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

~ Bill Dedman

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

~ Travis Bradberry

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

~ Laurie Helgoe

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.

~ Jason Fried

Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.

~ Klaus Schwab

Employees can make happiness when they maximize their brainwork voluntarily and enthusiastically. Management should focus on setting up an atmosphere.

~ Chey Tae-Won

Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone - investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.

~ Steve Blank

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

~ Jay Samit

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

~ Bob Nelson

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

~ James Sinegal

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

~ Gary Hamel

Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

~ Jason Fried

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

~ Harvey Mackay

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

~ Ingvar Kamprad

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

~ J. Paul Getty

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

~ Simon Mainwaring

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

~ Michael Bloomberg

My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.

~ Michael Moore

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

~ Michael Moore

Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.

~ Mike Huckabee

Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.

~ Patrick Lencioni

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

~ Simon Mainwaring

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

~ Wen Jiabao

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

~ Zig Ziglar

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

~ Angela Ahrendts

I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees.

~ Bernie Sanders

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.

~ Simon Mainwaring

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

~ Warren Bennis