Employee Quotes

1. "Dissident state or company employees in the Congo could not easily write to Morel directly, for a cabinet noir, or censorship office, in Boma monitored their correspondence."
Author: Adam Hochschild

2. "I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans."
Author: Amy Klobuchar

3. "The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe."
Author: Ayn Rand

4. "This place is packed," Vee complained. "Where am I supposed to park?" She steered down an alley and slowed to a stop behind a bookstore. "This looks good. Lots of parking back here." "The sign says employee parking only." "How are they going to know that we aren't employees? The Neon blends right in. All these cars speak low class." "The sign says violators will be towed." "They just say that to scare people like you and me away. It's an empty threat. Nothing to worry about."....... Vee came to a halt. "What is THAT?" We were standing in the parking lot behind the bookstore, a few feet from the Neon, and we were staring at a large piece of metal attached to the left rear tire. "I think it's a car boot," I said. "I can see that. What's it doing on my car?" "I guess when they say all violators will be towed, they mean it."
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

5. "If you define yourself by the title of coach or boss, you'll never earn real trust from your players or employees."
Author: Bill Courtney

6. "Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees."
Author: Bob Nelson

7. "The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live."
Author: Boomer Esiason

8. "We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities."
Author: Carl Karcher

9. "Giving employees a sense of control improved how much self-discipline they brought to their jobs."
Author: Charles Duhigg

10. "That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation."
Author: Charles E. Wilson

11. "I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want."
Author: Charlie Ergen

12. "Half of my employees are women."
Author: Christie Hefner

13. "A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing."
Author: Clay Shirky

14. "I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected."
Author: David A. Siegel

15. "Come on, sweetheart. I'm letting you do this. Do it." When she didn't respond, he added, "Listen, I know it's easier when they're not fucking looking at you."Beckett turned and faced the wall."I don't know who hired you, but can I ask you for something?" He talked at the wall.Here comes the fast-talking, the mojo, the shout to his employees."Could you make sure Cole doesn't take credit for his handiwork last night? And can you follow up on that Chris guy?" Beckett turned his head a bit, listening for her answer.He still trusts me. He still trusts me with his brothers. I can't do it."
Author: Debra Anastasia

16. "Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time."
Author: Demetri Martin

17. "So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'"
Author: Edward Whitacre Jr.

18. "Some nights he sat up late on his front porch with a glass of Jack and listened to the trucks heading south on 220, carrying crates of live chickens to the slaughterhouses—always under cover of darkness, like a vast and shameful trafficking—chickens pumped full of hormones that left them too big to walk—and he thought how these same chickens might return from their destination as pieces of meat to the floodlit Bojangles' up the hill from his house, and that meat would be drowned in the bubbling fryers by employees whose hatred of the job would leak into the cooked food, and that food would be served up and eaten by customers who would grow obese and end up in the hospital in Greensboro with diabetes or heart failure, a burden to the public, and later Dean would see them riding around the Mayodan Wal-Mart in electric carts because they were too heavy to walk the aisles of a Supercenter, just like hormone-fed chickens."
Author: George Packer

19. "To mirror her insecurity. Jett liked his employees like that. Even if they thought he was a real son-of-a-bitch, they worked harder"
Author: J.C. Reed

20. "As a government employee, you can't testify against the government."
Author: James Hansen

21. "We would rather have our employees running our business."
Author: James Sinegal

22. "I ought to fire one of my two employees into the other one's asshole."
Author: Jarod Kintz

23. "I hired a counterfeiter the other day. I told him, "As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you." I love a business model where the employee pays the employer."
Author: Jarod Kintz

24. "Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University."
Author: Jerry Costello

25. "The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees."
Author: Jim Ryun

26. "The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now."
Author: Jodi Rell

27. "If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes."
Author: John L. Lewis

28. "Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss."
Author: Lee Iacocca

29. "Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution."
Author: Luther Burbank

30. "But you don't get social with your employees," I remind him quietly. "I'd made an exception for you." His face is getting close and closer. Slowly. A centimetre at a time."But it's your rule.""I'll break it for you," he whispers."No, don't do that," I say breathlessly. "Fine, then you're fired," he says just as his lips meet mine."
Author: M. Leighton

31. "Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run."
Author: Marcus Buckingham

32. "The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind."
Author: Margaret Heffernan

33. "As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger."
Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

34. "An employer's fart is music to his employees' ears."
Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

35. "He told me that if you yelled out "JAMBA!" at full volume, all the employees would yell back "JUICE!" He lied."
Author: Morgan Matson

36. "The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them."
Author: Neal Stephenson

37. "I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment."
Author: Ned Vizzini

38. "Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance."
Author: Obama Biden Transition Project

39. "This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre."
Author: Richelle Mead

40. "To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader."- Capt. Bligh(ret.)"
Author: Robert Lynn Asprin

41. "Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone—customers, employees, and vendors."
Author: Robert Spector

42. "The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists."
Author: Shawn Achor

43. "Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn."
Author: Simon Mainwaring

44. "Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card."
Author: Stephan Pastis

45. "The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."
Author: Stephen R. Covey

46. "Everyone, no matter what kind of job he or she has, fantasizes about freaking out at work. How many corporate drones, stuck in a boring staff meeting, have had the sudden urge to jump on top of the conference table and start screaming obscenities? Strip off their clothes? Kiss the woman or man next to them? We all have. How many employees joke about shooting the boss or blowing the place up? I'm not suggesting we do any of these things, mind you, but let's not kid ourselves; we all have a little murder in our heart."
Author: Steve Dublanica

47. "The big deal is that if employees aren't engaged, your company will suffer."
Author: Susan Scott

48. "I always tell employees: 'The group's benefit is more important than your personal benefit.'"
Author: Terry Gou

49. "Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing."
Author: Virgil Goode

50. "From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life."
Author: Wayne Allard

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