A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.

I’m very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There’s so much opportunity. Let’s just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Odessa sighed. ‘When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

Your employees’ ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.

A person who is not getting job for long only needs the right opportunity to present himself through introduction ,but he who is in the same job for long requires the right and thorough introspection.

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.

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.

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that’s when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

A salary is, to a man’s employer, what his wife’s vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

I ought to fire one of my two employees into the other one’s asshole.

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.

A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer; it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Able hands’ are more favorable to business than ‘adorable hearts’.

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

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)

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries – without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

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.

My men are my money.

keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare.

I was short staffed. But that’s what happens when all your employees are midgets. I make love like spicy rice.

Like pets, I name my leftover food. Only I name them all after myself, partly so my coworkers won’t eat them in the fridge, but mostly out of vanity.

If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they’re asked.