Andy Rooney Quotes

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

When men are employed, they are best contented.

More efficient workers are always in an employer's best interest.

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

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.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

Fire people who are not workaholics.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Nobody works harder than American workers. We are the hardest working people in the world.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

Doling out punishment constantly [to civil servants] would only cause them to have a mentality of 'the less one does, the fewer mistakes one makes’.

Workmen are not machinery but intelligent and high strung individuals.