Quotes About Workplace

Trust me, all the innovative ideas that we put into practice, comes not within but outside the workplace!

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100 000 elevator.

than coasting along as a self-impressed elitist behind a desk.

I've also collected techniques for keeping unnecessary calls shorter. If I'm sitting while on the phone, I never put my feet up. In fact, it's better to stand when you're on the phone. You're more apt to speed things along. I also like to have something in view on my desk that I want to do, so I have the urge to wrap things up with the caller.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

If you don't have women working for you, you really don't know what the people who are buying from you really want.

I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.

There is nothing wrong with Radha Ravi calling women to his office. There's nothing wrong if a man calls women to his office. There is something wrong if a man calls men to his office.

The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Just because the office is casual doesn't mean you shouldn't make an effort.

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

I was told by people who wanted to 'help' me that, although I had checked the box on the skills they wanted to see in the quarterly evaluation, they thought that I might want to cut my long hair so that I looked less young.

I find in most circumstances, people leave bosses, not companies.

I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.

I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it's a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

Supporting the people in our businesses is what we need to be thinking about. It's a no-brainer. It improves leadership. It improves productivity. It cultivates this entrepreneurship concept and improves retention.

I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.

I'm the only female producer on Impact, and they're very supportive, the men.

People need a space that they can go to make a conference or Skype call. It's important to create those spaces and create a company culture that supports those spaces.