Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.
John Mackey
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Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
James P. Hoffa
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Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.
Robert Greenwald
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I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.
Gwynne Shotwell
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I think the bring-your-own-device is the best thing that ever happened to CIOs. Now employees are paying for their own devices.
Aneel Bhusri
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I had a choice between working on Wall Street or doing consulting or working at a start-up, and I got a job at a start-up. I was one of the first employees there, and I did everything for them, and it was so much fun.
Glenn Kelman
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Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
John T. Chambers
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I've been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me 'Ready Player One' is, like, required reading for new employees.
Ernest Cline
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I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
Steve Jobs
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In December 2014, Uber held its annual holiday party on an unfurnished floor at its swank, mood-lit headquarters in San Francisco. Employees and investors attended in flamboyant attire from the Roaring '20s and drank at an open bar into the early morning hours.
Emily Chang
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At Translation, we pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse agencies in the industry - and with that diversity comes a wealth of different talents and perspectives. The onus is on us to empower our employees to use those considerable talents to create real systemic change.
Steve Stoute
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At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
David Sax
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Each quarter, Indian IT firms publish their results, and these are broadcast on CNBC. From the comfort of their boardrooms, executives say how many new employees have been added, how many more Fortune 500 companies have been signed up as clients, how many million-dollar companies were added, and so on.
Shiv Nadar
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There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.
Charlie Ergen
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters
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Ultimately, this is about having fun at work. You want to enjoy your job. You're going to have higher-performing employees.
Cathy Engelbert
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I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.
Robert Zubrin
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Companies can't offer every employee a vertical rise through the ranks, and some employees' careers will level off. Without the prospects of further advancement, how do you keep these people satisfied throughout what might now be a longer working life? By providing them with an increased level of autonomy.
Alexander De Croo
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Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Companies must put infrastructure in place to support their female employees and ensure that they receive the benefits of male and female leadership.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Increase your company's average talent with each hire - founders tend to be pretty smart but willing to take on risk. Employees should be a lot smarter and less risk averse.
Michael Seibel
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As an actor, you're just trying to get work in any medium. I remember when I started out, I did motion capture for video games, and then I did a terrible Best Buy commercial for Best Buy employees.
Sarah Goldberg
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While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.
Mitch McConnell
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The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
Nick Hanauer
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