You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.
It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.
Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first. . . at least 100 employees and often many more.
Some good employers provide people benefits. Many do not. The ones that do not tend to be the low end of the pay scale. This program will give those employers a way to support their employees. The employees will get this benefit, making it more likely that their employee will come back to them - that's a benefit for the employer over the long term and a benefit for the employee and all the while supporting families in their time of need.
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.
Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.
The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.
I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.
If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you. . . . you deserve it. Same goes for employees too.
Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.
Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.
Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.
In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.
"Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll. "