Employee Quotes

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. (Laurence J. Peter)

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.

Learned Hand

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Andy Grove

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

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.

Leland Stanford

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

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.

Tom DeLay

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

Akio Morita

The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor. The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good.

Henry Gantt

Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that's weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living. (Andy Hurley)

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

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

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

Gregory Balestrero

The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

Gregory Balestrero

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"--he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Peter Drucker

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

Everybody notices if you're the last one in in the morning and the first one to go in the evening. Always remember that as an employee.

Tilman J. Fertitta

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Douglas Rushkoff

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

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life! (John C. Reilly)

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

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

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

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Frank Murphy

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