Employee Quotes

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

You have to treat your employees like customers

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans

Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.

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

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

Half of my employees are women.

Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

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%.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

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.

Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.