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.

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

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

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.

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.

My men are my money.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.

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

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

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

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

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

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.

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

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

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

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.

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

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

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

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

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!