Workplace famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
-- Albert Speer -
Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.
-- Alexis Herman -
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
-- Alfie Kohn -
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
-- Bill Shorten -
Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
-- Billy Connolly -
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
-- Bob Sutton -
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.
-- Celinda Lake -
It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace.
-- Chuck Martin -
It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
-- David Chipperfield -
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
-- David Whyte -
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
-- Edward Coke -
Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.
-- Eli Broad -
Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.
-- Fritz Todt -
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
-- Gianni Agnelli -
Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.
-- Henry Cloud -
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
-- John C. Reilly -
If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
-- Kenneth Kaye -
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley -
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
-- Margaret Spellings -
If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.
-- Mona Sahlin -
It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.
-- Monique Lhuillier -
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.
-- Naomi Wolf -
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
-- Nigel Rees -
A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
-- Park Chan-wook -
I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.
-- Paulina Porizkova -
Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.
-- Pope Francis -
There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
-- Rachel Roy -
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.
-- Rachel Roy -
The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce a new economy, and thereby a new society, after capitalism.
-- Seymour Melman -
Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.
-- Tim Scott -
Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.
-- Tom Rath -
In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.
-- Warren Farrell -
Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
-- Warren Farrell -
Communication is vital when it comes to excelling in the workplace and in your personal relationships.
-- Chelsea Krost -
As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.
-- Chip Espinoza -
A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's.
-- Hiroyuki Hirano -
When we spoke about workplaces in 1972 we mainly were referring to old-line manufacturing firms, on the one hand, and Main St. shops and restaurants, on the other. Both of those categories are now insignificant in terms of employment. Today, the economy is dominated by the rapidly growing Low-Cost Operators - national discount and mall chain stores, fast food franchises and supermarkets - which offer employees low salaries, few benefits and little training.
-- James O'Toole -
The status of women in the workplace has improved dramatically since 1972. More women today have good jobs, the gap between the incomes of men and women has been markedly reduced, and women are reporting far higher levels of job satisfaction.
-- James O'Toole -
I believed that we would all come to better decisions and we would create more humane and ultimately more livable and more sustainably productive workplaces if we knew how to speak to each other about difficult issues and if we were more able to listen to and learn from diverse points of view.
-- Mary C. Gentile -
In New Zealand, sex workers are regarded as workers, as people who are members of the community, people who have a stake in the community - not just in the workplace, but in the broader community. They aren't objects to be controlled and regulated. They are not collateral evidence of a crime. They are human beings.
-- Melissa Gira Grant -
You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.
-- Stephen Marche -
We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels on the subject. We have far more novels about families bickering at Thanksgiving and not enough about the day before Thanksgiving at the office. If we lived in, say, Romania, maybe a workplace job might not be as important to the cultural discussion. But we live in America, where work is crucially important and capitalism drives everything we do.
-- Teddy Wayne -
The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.
-- Richard D. Wolff -
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.
-- Ron Chernow -
We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.
-- Gretchen Carlson -
We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, sexual harassment is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, the assault of women is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. The list goes on.
-- Tara Moss -
A lot of women in the workplace are stuck in the uncomfortable place of having to come to terms with the fact that something isn't right, while no one around them will listen, or accept that something is wrong. Many workplaces have best practice, but sadly, many do not. The barriers are not insurmountable, but they are there, and we see that in the stats.
-- Tara Moss -
How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide.
-- Marc Kielburger
