Quotes About Workplace

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers. They should never be able to discover how your life is going. This is called being professional.

Unfortunately, some leaders use their power to instill fear in employees.

Aprecio seu interesse pelo meu bem-estar no trabalho. Mas, agora, preciso de você como ouvinte. Você gostaria de me escutar por alguns minutos? Depois, eu adoraria receber suas orientações para lidar com essa situação.

the Office is in Tel Aviv.

Supervisors who bully employees reveal their lack of competence in reasoning.

The majority of governmental workers wear his or her personality not on their sleeves but on ID badges.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

Exxon Valdese, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island had one thing in common: They were all industrial accidents that occurred in the middle of the night involving people with sleep management problems. Insufficient sleep is responsible for billions of dollars of industrial accidents.

We don't keep jerks; life is too short to work with them and really way too short to pay them and work with them too. Seems simple, but it requires that you fight to build an incredible team and culture from the moment you post a position until you celebrate their retirement. Every day every behavior, attitude, and execution has to be led well by a courageous, loving leader.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

File cabinets were closed with determined thuds like mortar rounds going off, and the rapid chatter of typewriter keys sounded like machine guns strafing the paper into submission.

I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home.

He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

You see, if I keep it up I can eventually get promoted to Senior Shouting Officer, and there aren't usually many vacancies for nonshouting and nonpushing-people-about officers, so I think I'd better stick to what I know.

One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio.

When a man's ambitious, it's called drive. When a woman's ambitious, it's careerism and she's a bitch.

anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.

Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague not to be an ass.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

Waxaad qiimo iyo sharaf ku lahaan doontaa goobaha shaqada, kolba sida aad u tayeyso xirfada iyo aqoonta aad xanbaarsan tahay.

She loved sarcasm, especially from engineers.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

I took it as my personal responsibility to be able to juggle. I didn't want anybody to help me and I didn't expect my office to make it easy for me.

When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.