David Riesman Quotes

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

I don't play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, 'Go on the Internet, and find this or that.'

I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Command-and-control isn't the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore.

Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.

I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.

I'm a leader at the restaurant. If I do this, the people at the restaurant will try to do better. I believe in that, and that's the way it is.

David Moyes works you really hard, but he's also a fair manager as well.

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me.

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.