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Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. -- Harvey Mackay
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. -- Demetri Martin
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. -- Johnny Depp
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? -- Thomas J. Watson
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. -- Charles Kettering
Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business. -- Ian Hutchinson
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work. -- Daniel Yankelovich
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. -- James Levine
The so-called 'Employee Free Choice Act' envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation. -- Mike Pence
True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work. -- Simon Sinek
To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress. -- Devin Nunes
To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress. -- Devin Nunes
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. -- Amy Klobuchar
I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy. -- Dax Shepard
Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP. -- Ronald Reagan
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it... -- Jack Welch
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? -- Steven Wright
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. -- J. Paul Getty
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. -- Fred Allen
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. -- Kathryn Minshew
This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer. -- Marco Rubio
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. -- Stephen Covey
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women -- Victoria Principal
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee. -- Mark Hanna
Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work. -- John Engler
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. -- Bruce Barton
An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager. -- Bob Nelson
If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding. -- Jeffrey Jones
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. -- Tom Peters
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. -- Michael Bloomberg
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. -- Germaine Greer
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. -- Hugh Grant
On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. -- Cliff Stearns
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. -- Steve Wozniak
In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck. -- Virgil Goode
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. -- E. F. Schumacher
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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. -- John L. Lewis
Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it. -- Robin S. Sharma
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. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do. -- James Levine
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it -- M. Anthony Burns
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. -- Bob Riley
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
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. -- Steve Jobs
Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing. -- Margaret Heffernan
Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning. -- Jack Welch
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. -- Simon Sinek
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
Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans. -- Jim Cooper
When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?' -- Peter Diamandis
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people. -- Kenny Rogers
My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity. -- David Rubenstein
Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line. -- Kathryn Minshew
I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was. -- Emily Deschanel
Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing. -- Jack Welch
Our society has become an employee society. -- Peter Drucker
Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that. -- Paul Cookson
Steve Austin will never be employee of the month! -- Jim Ross
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee. -- Russell Pearce
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. -- James Hansen
Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization. -- Brian Tracy
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee. -- Salman Rushdie
A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's. -- Jack Ma
America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view. -- Jim Ratcliffe
I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want. -- Li Ka-shing
The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior. -- David Rose
[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave. -- Patrick Heusinger
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity -- William Hunter
A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank. -- Marilyn Ferguson
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee. -- Jack Ma
Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today? -- Tom Peters
Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee. -- Louis C. K.
An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee. -- Tony Benn
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. -- Warren Buffett
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both. -- Edward Abbey
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace. -- Reid Hoffman
I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life! -- John C. Reilly
The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression. -- Scott Weiss
I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook. -- Larry Bucshon
To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee. -- David Spade
... you should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do. -- Sam Altman
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee. -- Barbara Corcoran
We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership. -- Jim Ratcliffe
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions. -- Ben Horowitz
I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee. -- Charles Edison
The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager. -- Keith Rabois
We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly. -- Charles Koch
If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him. -- Warren Farrell
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me, -- Ruchi Sanghvi
... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee. -- Sam Altman
It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee. -- Steig Larsson
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1. -- Christian Finnegan
I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed. -- Joaquin Phoenix
If you don't feel drowsy after lunch and don't yawn in the office, you're not a perfect employee! -- Himmilicious
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. -- Ben Horowitz
Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness. -- David Niu
PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest. -- Nancy Humphries
Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work. -- Indra Nooyi
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he? -- Henry Ford
The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained. -- Zig Ziglar
As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization. -- Jack Welch
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. -- George E. P. Box
You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him. -- Frederick Herzberg
Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee. -- Keith Rabois
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing. -- Clay Shirky
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform. -- Reid Hoffman
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. -- Newt Gingrich
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck. -- Shawn Achor
Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person. -- Jack Ma
I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value. -- Dov Seidman
AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people. -- Sam Altman
Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers. -- Tony Hsieh

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