Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee."
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Employee
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Jack Ma
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
"Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives."
Robert Kiyosaki
Businessman, Author
"You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well."
Larry Ellison
Businessman
"Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible."
Blake Mycoskie
Entrepreneur
"The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing."
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"MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing."
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"Always let your employees come to work with a smile."
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"Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third."
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"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."
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"Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change."
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"Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength."
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"The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained."
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"Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization."
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"Our society has become an employee society."
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"Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us."
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"[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something."
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"Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many."
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"Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order."
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"When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees."
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"I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness."
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"How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?"
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"Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business."
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"You eat the room service employees every time?” Denise asked, shocked. “Of course. But don’t fret on their behalf. I always tip well."
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"No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing."
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"Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day."
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