136 Employee Quotes
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Famous Employee Quotes
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. — Walter Gilbey
When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors. — James Sinegal
If he works for you, you work for him. — Japanese Proverbs
This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer. — Marco Rubio
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen
Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met. — Richard Branson
As a worker you want to be as leveraged as possible. — Naval Ravikant
It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages. — Henry Ford
Where there is a worker, there lies a nation. — Evita Peron
You don't criticize your employer. — Tucker Carlson
A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!" — Milton Berle
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Sun Tzu
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done. — John Ilhan
Short Employee Quotes
- Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. — Fred A. Allen
- No relationship has been changed more by the pandemic than the one between employers and employees. — Larry Fink
- Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? — Steven Wright
- To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
- We would rather have our employees running our business. — James Sinegal
- Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. — Ian Hutchinson
- Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair
- We do all we can to proactively think about employees, how to care about them. — Eric Yuan
- If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well. — Eric Yuan
- Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee. — Mark Hanna
Good Employee Quotes
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. — Lee Iacocca
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. — Ingvar Kamprad
The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news. — Bill Gates
We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us. — Jamie Dimon
I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor. — Anthony Jeselnik
If there’s an employee who looks good on paper, but doesn’t reflect the company’s values, I should let them go sooner rather than later. — Cliff Lerner
I'm lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn't open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees. — Michael Symon
Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules — Unknown
I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis. — Jerome Kerviel
Bad Employee Quotes
A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur. — Patrick Bet-David
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
It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most. — Kanye West
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion. — Kevin O'Leary
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates
On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead. — Katrina Onstad
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. — Marc Andreessen
Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer. — Martin Zwilling
Vlad hated doing the paperwork as much as he did when a human employee quit, which was why they'd both made a promise not to eat quitters just to avoid the paperwork. As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees. — Anne Bishop
Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it. — Sam Altman
Happy Employee Quotes
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. — Kathryn Minshew
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that. — Herb Kelleher
If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works. — Herb Kelleher
The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy. — Jack Ma
It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it. — Anousheh Ansari
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. — Zig Ziglar
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy. — Barbara Corcoran
The best motivation for anyone-including employees-is to hear or see our name as often and in as many places as possible. Our name is the most potent sound we can hear and see. If you want to motivate someone put their name up in lights and/or sing it from the rooftops! — Vicki Donlan
Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness. — David Niu
I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed. — Joaquin Phoenix
Employee Engagement Quotes
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. — Simon Sinek
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today. — Gary Hamel
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. — Ken Blanchard
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. — Charles R. Schwab
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. — Peter Drucker
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
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. — Stephen Covey
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. — Frances Hesselbein
Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved. — Peter Senge
Employee Recognition Quotes
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it. — Spencer Tracy
The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. — Susan RoAne
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. — Mother Teresa
When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way. — Alan Loy McGinnis
Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work. — Tom Rath
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. — Marianne Williamson
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. — Zig Ziglar
Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued. — Robert Spector
A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results. — Simon Sinek
Employee Productivity Quotes
Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. — Jack Welch
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
We also started asking all new employees to build an app using Twilio—not just the developers, everybody. — Jeff Lawson
In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average. — Edward O. Thorp
When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today. — Dave Ulrich
Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems. — Sayings
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive. — Sheryl Sandberg
The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor. — Marcus Buckingham
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
Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson. — Peter Thiel
Employee Appreciation Quotes
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers — Richard Branson
(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.' — James Hunter
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work. — Marilyn C. Nelson
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. — Seth Godin
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss. — Paul Hawken
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways. — Bob Nelson
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More Employee Quotes
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better. — W. Edwards Deming
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. — Joko Beck
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. — Thomas J. Peters
Rule number one of creating wealth; never ever work for a sexy established company. If you work for a sexy established company no one knows you. If you quit, you get fired, you were just another employee. Go to a company, help it become sexy, established. Be a leader, own a piece, you'll become wealthy. — Patrick Bet-David
Our conviction at BlackRock is that companies perform better when they are deliberate about their role in society and act in the interests of their employees, customers, communities, and their shareholders. — Larry Fink
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. — Harold Hook
Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management. — Howard Schultz
What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job. — Thomas Friedman
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment. — Sam Walton
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. — John Kennedy Toole
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization. — Anita Roddick
Listen to feedback the first time. Whether it be from friends, employees, or customers. If it makes you better, change it now, no matter how much it hurts. — Alex Hormozi
Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business. — Yvon Chouinard
I was playing an Ikea employee one time and a guy asked me about an armoire, so I ran through the store and he and his lady started running after me, and we end up inside an armoire - literally. — Joe Gatto
I learned early on that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, and the business will take care of itself. — Glen Bell
In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try. — Mike Krzyzewski
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. — Robert S. Kaplan
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington. — Grace Hopper
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors. — Michael Abrashoff
Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens. — Charles Derber
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 John Watson, Sr.
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
Under-slept employees are not, therefore, going to drive your business forward with productive innovation. Like a group of people riding stationary exercise bikes, everyone looks like they are pedaling, but the scenery never changes. The irony that employees miss is that when you are not getting enough sleep, you work less productively and thus need to work longer to accomplish a goal. This means you often must work longer and later into the evening, arrive home later, go to bed later, and need to wake up earlier, creating a negative feedback loop. Why try to boil a pot of water on medium heat when you could do so in half the time on high? People often tell me that they do not have enough time to sleep because they have so much work to do. Without wanting to be combative in any way whatsoever, I respond by informing them that perhaps the reason they still have so much to do at the end of the day is precisely because they do not get enough sleep at night. — Matthew Walker
Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom. — Dina Titus
It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees. — Chamath Palihapitiya
I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. — Clint Eastwood
The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer. — Dennis Hastert
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