Quotes About Workplace

Work friendships are not a substitute for real friendships, although they can also be satisfying, if designed purposively.

Leaders are particularly prone to loneliness, in no small part because real friendships at work are difficult or impossible with people under one's authority and supervision.

At work, successful people are lonely in a crowd.

I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make it inhospitable for women.

If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'

Candidly, I've noticed that throughout my career, whether in offices that are majority male or majority female, the men are quick to advocate for themselves for a higher starting salary or more pay bumps over time.

My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

In a room full of 60 to 70 people which is open plan and absolutely quiet, it's very intimidating to make a phone call. And if you do so, you're upsetting about 15 to 20 people because they're put off by your phone call.

I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.

I had had to quit a few jobs in North Carolina because of how anxious they made me.

Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'

It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.

I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.

When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.

At RightNow, we employed gays, and we ran a complete meritocracy.

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

We all know this is a pretty intense business. There's a lot that happens, a lot that goes on here. Just like any other job, you want to be happy, and once you've gained that respect, you want to be treated with that type of respect.

This is going to sound like a lie, but the 'Game of Thrones' set is so good to work on. I've been a part of plays and other projects where egos get in the way and there are constant fallings out. There's none of that there.

If Donald Trump wants to acknowledge that we have a pay gap for women and we need to address it, I would work with Donald Trump.

The pay gap has nothing to do with employer discrimination; it has to do with choice. Let's employ a little common sense: statistically, women are the likely of a family to forego a career for more time with the family, and maybe it's because they want to.

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.

I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender.