Employee Quotes

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?

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

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.

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.

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.

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

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.

I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

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.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

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.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

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.

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.