The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

- Bob Riley

I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

- David Duffield

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

- David Spade

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

- Douglas Rushkoff

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

- Demetri Martin

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

- Charles Edison

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

- Carl Paladino

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

- Campbell Scott

I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one.

- Chris Squire

Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

- Charles Duhigg

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

- Andy Grove

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

- Bruce Barton

Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.

- Ben Horowitz

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

- Bob Nelson

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

- Bo Bennett

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

- Al Michaels

I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.

- Amy Klobuchar

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

- Aaron Patzer

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

- Anne M. Mulcahy