Employment Contract Quotes & Sayings

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"-he owes performance and nothing else. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform. — Peter Drucker

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers. — Elyn R. Saks

Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy actions; nor contentious, and troublesome in thy conversation; nor to rove and wander in thy fancies and imaginations. Not basely to contract thy soul; nor boisterously to sally out with it, or furiously to launch out as it were, nor ever to want employment. — Marcus Aurelius

Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily — Sunday Adelaja

Loyalties of professional sports teams mystified him; they were rotating groups of paid professionals, usually with no ties other than their employment contract to the local area. One might as well feel loyalty to and cheer on the construction crew repairing the state highway nearest one's town — Joel L.A. Peterson

The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond. — Peter Drucker

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily — Sunday Adelaja

Behind every rich employer, there is a not-so rich employee. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Break free from the contract of employment — Sunday Adelaja

What happened between my legs was best ignored. I'm certain something in the employment contract outlawed any and all wetness on my part, especially if it pertained to one James Dylan Ferries. — Kylie Scott

Which lawyer drafts the contract is often dictated by custom: financing agreements are drafted by lenders' counsel; acquisition agreements are drafted by purchaser's counsel; underwriting agreements are drafted by underwriter's counsel; employment contracts are drafted by employers' counsel; security agreements are drafted by secured party's counsel. The underlying principle is that the party with the most leverage or with the most to lose from an inadequately drafted contract will do the drafting. — Charles M. Fox

My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers. — Mark Noble

A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned - in the very same prison - by the employment contract that he has signed. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't. — Ronnie Apteker