Best Workplace Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 10

“Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.”

“If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.”

Ifs Mean Hard Lasts Moving Fun Party Havens Needed Drinking Ruins Drivers Desks Workplace Astronaut Lighting Poop Beyonce

Author:Aisha Tyler

“When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms.”

Children Said Facts Rooms Presses Boxes Workplace Credentials

Author:Lesley Visser

“Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Given Justice Demand Equal Men And Women Feminist Radical Workplace Equal Opportunity Radical Feminist

Book:It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good

Source: It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good

“I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.”

Thinking Connections Complicated Actresses Closest Survived Workplace Great Ones Snl Battleground Deep Connections

Author:Ana Gasteyer

“The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.”

Firsts Body Hands Simple Walks Type Becoming Priorities Psychological Workplace Extensions Battlefields Gadgets Millennials Savvy Upper Hand

Author:Morley Safer

“Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.”

Whole Sex Week Calling Boxes Cards Appeals Workplace Sex Appeal Crayon Days Of The Week

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.”

World Work Masters Slave Employee Workplace Employers Masters And Slaves

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.”

Men Humor Today Funny Comedy Danger Return Chairs Appetite Workplace Pipe

Author:Bill Cosby

“They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.”

Source: Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

“People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices”

People Feels Persons Left Community Devices Belonging Workplace Enthusiastic

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.”

Spiritual Culture Spirituality Television Ordinary Shopping Workplace Barren Malls Stagnant

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.”

“To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.”

Ready Fairs Vote Feminist Obvious Abortion Treatment Exploitation Workplace Facilitate Availability

Author:Mary Ann Glendon

“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”

“Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.”

Way Play Body Culture Language Innovation Employee Workplace Visitors Body Language

Book:The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

Source: The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

“In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”

Knows Way Ends Life Is Creativity Know How Struggle Conflict Survival Triumph Cooperation Workplace Long Life Aggressors Struggle For Survival

Book:The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

“The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.”

Trying Running Differences Masters Conflict Deny Divides Workplace

Book:Conflict Mediation Across Cultures: Pathways and Patterns

Source: Conflict Mediation Across Cultures: Pathways and Patterns

“If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.”

Ifs Mother Father Conflict Invention Workplace Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Author:Kenneth Kaye

“In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.”

May Conflict Harmony Proof Piano Tension Pounds Iron Strings Concerts Workplace

Author:Theodore E. Steinway

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

People Work Creativity Creative Modern Innovation Access Iron Steel Workplace Coal Creative People Modern Business Iron Ore

Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

Ifs Thinking Made Ideas Whole Light Action Creativity One Thing Mines Innovation Property Instruction Workplace Exclusive Patents Susceptible Intellectual Property Darkening

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.”

People Heart Art Values Passion Lines Creativity Fine Honor Ideals Innovation Profit Customers Pursuit Lovely Enterprise Throwing Selfless Workplace

Author:Tom Peters

“The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the opposition of major corporations. On nearly every issue, from fair labor standards, to the minimum wage, to environmental standards, to standards for a safe workplace, corporations have fought against them every step of the way.”

“As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.”

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.”

People Thinking Want Home Funny Work Office Paper Six Stores Coffee Cups Workplace Toilets Your Past Supplies Coffee Cup Envelopes Pastries Toilet Paper Stationary Danish Funny Work

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.”

Ifs Way Ends Care Jobs America Lost Numbers Roles Land Products Exercise Don't Care Boss Workplace Subservient Making A Living Land Of The Free

Author:Tom Morello

“A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.”

Want Film Environment Office Workplace Stressful Film Set Work Environment

Author:Park Chan-wook

“Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.”

Firsts Social Community Careers Students College First Time Invention Workplace Affordable Get Ahead College Education Gateways Community College Workplace Safety

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.”

Science Technology Successful Generations Standards Discovery Investment Population Rising Factories Workplace Infrastructure Science And Technology Surplus New Discoveries Discovery In Science

Author:Robert Trout

“Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.”

People Ideas Shows Levels Effort Study Environment Share Trust Communication Increase Happy Productivity Employee Productive Engagement Workplace Work Effort Open Communication

Author:Arthur Miller

“I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.”

Needs Bigs Young Demand Young Women Workplace Dressings Get Ahead

Author:Rachel Roy

“I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.”

Thinking Believe Made Ends Impact Workplace Workplace Safety

Author:Paula Jones

“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

Inspirational Motivational Order Impossible Possibility Hard Work Empowering Workplace Impossibility Best Work Wise Women Motivational Work Possible And Impossible Achieving The Impossible Work Place

Author:Bette Davis

“Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.”

Mean Made Done Problem Term Quality Progress Plans Understood Improvement Quantity Workplace Glances Delay Defects Initiate Showcase

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.”

People Want Joy Leader Exercise Achievement Increase Satisfaction Workplace Personal Satisfaction

Book:Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job

Source: Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job

“A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile.”

Source: Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job

“That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.”

Can Do Raises Plant Chemicals Factories Workplace Crops Enzymes

Author:Thomas Carper

“The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?”

Thinking Knows Workplace True Friend

Author:Byron Katie

“And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.”

Ifs States Home Courses Chance United Millions United States Garden Crosses Borders Restaurants Shops Factories Dishes Workplace Mexican Chances Are Carpentry

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.”

Smart Things To Do Right Thing Inclusion Fairness Workplace

Author:Alexis Herman

“Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'”

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

“Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Play Culture Leadership Company Talent Brilliant Engagement Workplace Great Talent Company Culture

Author:Richard Branson

“On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.”

Knows Done Jobs Fiction Pieces Average Deeper Workplace Loan Get The Job Done

Book:The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.”

“The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.”

Thinking Opportunity Careers Students Encouragement Missions Traditional Workplace Entrances Career Opportunities Encourage Students Future Careers

Author:Allen Tate

“We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.”

Democracy Progress Newspapers Agents Workplace Globalization Parades

Author:John Sweeney

“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”

Want Writing Imagination Memories Work Dark Rooms Views Workplace Avoided

Author:Annie Dillard

“The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.”

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