Quotes about employees

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

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

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

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

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

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

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

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

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

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

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

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

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.

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

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

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)

Poor people do not go on holiday they go home.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The what to do can be taught the how to do it is not as easy to pass on to someone who simply doesn’t “get it.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world the poor go see their parents.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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.

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

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 study"Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave.

Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.

If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

The growth of an organization is not dependent on the number of employees in its register. It is dependent on the number of employees who show dedication and commitment to the vision of the organization.

Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.

Your mission statement, vision statement, core values, and service standards provide a clear focus for all while keeping your team humble and hungry. It creates that family environment in which your employees enjoy coming to work and dealing with the challenges they face each day.

You’ve got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand.

Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.

Values are the measuring stick for howyou make decisions in business: goal setting, employee conduct, recognition, discipline—everything.

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

Always put people first, for without them, there is no organization

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

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

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

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.

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

We do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous or more philanthropic than other people. But we think we started on sound and straightforward business principles, considering the interests of the shareholders our own, and the health and welfare of the employees, the sure foundation of our success.

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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!