Employees Quotes

“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.”
― Warren Buffett

“Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“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.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.” Sir”
― Sir Richard Branson

“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Investors are people with more money than time.
Employees are people with more time than money.
Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.
Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.
Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”
“Company culture is what goes without saying.
There are no real rules, only laws.
Success forgives all sins.
People who leak to you, leak about you.
Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.
Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society.
Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.
Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities.
Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.”
― Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

“Being a good employee is a service to the whole economy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“More people should aspire to be a good employee.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There is beauty in being a good employee. Most people can achieve more greatness as an employee than they ever could as an entrepreneur.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“It’s important for employees to be employed in the roles where they are most productive. No matter how excellent someone is, if they are tasked with doing things that don’t align with their excellence, they will produce mediocre results at best.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Employers pay with their money for what employees have paid for with portions of their lives.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Treat your employees like they make a difference, and they will.”
― Dax Bamania

“Sales, marketing & purchase are heart of any employer. Employees in these departments always get tremendous trust, faith & love from employer. Their bonds & footprints remain forever.”
― Sonal Takalkar

“I would not take a management position again.”
― Steven Magee

“As departments, we aren't very respectful of one another. The geologists are the Rock People and Delores and Ginger are the Plant People. Here in Ornithology, we're the Bird People, the ichthyologists are the Fish People, the entomologists are the Bug People, those in Paleo are the Bone People, and Anthro is just Antho, because otherwise we'd have to call them the People People.”
― Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

“After researching the utility industry, I concluded there are a subset of employees that are just nasty!”
― Steven Magee

“Companies are living creatures. They have their personas, a company can be vibrant, can be old & stubborn, can be adventurous & risk taker, it can be anything & everything, depending on its employees & the management profound believes of growth & organizational justice”
― Sally El-Akkad

“If only managers understand how much they touch their team lives, comfort, satisfaction, job security, & talent development, they might reconsider their actions…

Leaders should be a force for good!”
― Sally El-Akkad

“As in other industries, the recruitment process has become a lot easier (cheaper) for employers and a lot more expensive for would be employees. A demo with a new sound or a solid audition isn’t good enough. Artists are now expected to arrive with a market-ready brand and audience, saving their corporate overlords the makeover expense. Building a brand is no longer the purview of slick besuited experts; it’s the individual responsibility of every voice that wants to “make it.”
― Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

“Employee Experience (EX) is still not embedded into the majority of daily operations. If we correlate EX to User Experience (UX) or Customer Experience (CX) there is much of the holistic picture missing.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Improving employee happiness raises sales by 37%, productivity by 31% and accuracy of task completion by 19%.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Companies with a culture of employee recognition, where employees feel that their contributions matter, perform better and have less employee turnover than those that don’t.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“To become more aware of this behavioral tendency, we need to observe and acknowledge how sustainable performance is rewarded; find out what are the consistency of practices and how real is the dimension of organizational values against its daily operations?”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Think about management to support rather than dictate. Be there to serve, to unblock obstacles, not to tell people what to do and how to do it.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Create a movement, a cause, a revolution for your employees to work towards, instead of a company to work for.”
― Ted Rubin

“Employees are the heart of any company; nurturing their growth leads to a flourishing organization.”
― Dax Bamania

“Employees who feel supported and appreciated are more likely to go above and beyond for their organization.”
― Dax Bamania

“The most successful startups are those that are able to balance the needs of their customers, employees, and investors, while staying true to their vision and values.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Startup

“Empowered employees with a clear understanding of the vision are the ones who will put it into action and make it a success.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Most employees are like interchangeable machine parts. When they show up to work, there is no trace of the person they replaced, and then they leave, they make no lasting impression and it's as if they were never there.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes