Employee-Employer Relationship Quotes

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody who's got the power to fire me if my underwear doesn't make it all the way to the hamper." She repressed a smile. "I'm sympathetic to your problem, but I'm not selling the team just so you can be a slob." "Somehow I didn't expect you would.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.