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

“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

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

“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

“The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)”
― Vineet Nayar, Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down

“When people love the work they do, they bring something special and unique to the job.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“One of the best things you can do for your employees is to make sure that they have the resources they need to be successful in their jobs.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When empathy is present in a companies culture, employees feel safe and they bring the fullness of who they are into the company instead of just a piece of themself. And that cultivates trust. And that's good for everyone.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“As a leader, it's important to trust your team. When they feel that trust from you, they'll give it back.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every business should have a team of employees who each love the work they do.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Solving problems and iterating solutions is best done through collaboration, not force.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every employee deserves to be respected.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“We think it's important to have a company culture where employees feel loved, valued, and appreciated.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When employees have the freedom to be creative and explore new ideas, magical things happen and the company benefits from that too.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every employee should feel like their job is important and that their presence in the company is valued.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“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

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

“Customer service is greatly impacted by whether or not employees enjoy working with each other. Its important that employees enjoy working with each other -  not that they enjoy playing with each other - but that they enjoy working with each other. When there is collective joy in them doing the work that they are paid to do, it becomes radiantly evident to everyone. This is the kind of business where people like to spend money.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“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

“Every business always need a powerful employer who have faith in his or her worthy people. Inversely, all employees no doubtable keep faith on their employer for worthy results.”
― Sonal Takalkar

“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: The Making of Millennials