Employee Mindset Quotes

I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.

For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

Every employee at Workday thinks about how they are going to help customers be successful. It is a simple formula, but a lot of companies go out, and they don't listen to their customers; they don't try to solve hard problems, making it tougher for themselves to create a great business.

As an employee, you can't work for someone forever.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Southwest isn't a 'This is my job, that's your job' kind of company. Being successful is our job, and we're willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that.

None of us are bigger than the WWE. It will always continue to go on, and I will always be a part of it.

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.