Top 100 People Work Quotes
#1. The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.
Keith Rabois
#2. The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.
Iliza Shlesinger
#3. I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.
Rand Paul
#4. I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.
Nick Earls
#5. We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.
Frederick Lenz
#6. You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.
Anthony Horowitz
#7. So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
Penelope Keith
#8. More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Pope Francis
#9. I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.
Brendon Urie
#10. People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Elon Musk
#11. I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.
Masuji Ibuse
#12. Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#14. Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
Ricardo Semler
#15. It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by ... ' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.
Xavier Dolan
#16. To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.
Haile Gerima
#17. I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.
Judd Apatow
#18. I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
Jack Nicklaus
#19. I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
Tom T. Hall
#20. Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
Rachel Weisz
#21. Learning how young people work is imperative - because getting the most out of employees can be the difference between success and failure for many companies.
Charlie Caruso
#22. for some people work remains routine, unchallenging, and directed by others. But for a surprisingly large number of people, jobs have become more complex, more interesting, and more self-directed.
Daniel H. Pink
#23. She makes her people work on Sundays?" Rachel whispers, pulling some of my grandmother's old food from he fridge and sniffing it.
"Nah-weekends are optional. They only have to work them if they want to keep their jobs.
Sarah Ockler
#24. Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."
Philip Schuyler
#25. Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.
Nas
#26. You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.
Richard Yates
#27. People work together when it suits them. They're loyal when it suits them. They love each other when it suits them, and they kill each other when it suits them.
Game Of Thrones
#28. Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.
George Lois
#29. Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
Gretchen Rubin
#30. When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.
Stef Wertheimer
#31. People work better when they are afforded to be themselves
Stella McCartney
#32. The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.
Brian Tracy
#33. When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.
Pearl S. Buck
#34. In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.
James Surowiecki
#35. Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
#36. I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.
Caroline Winberg
#37. I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.
Steve Wozniak
#38. I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.
Fiona Apple
#39. Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
Fernando Torres
#40. The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.
Tullian Tchividjian
#41. I can see how people work out to feel better.
Derek Jeter
#42. You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.
Pankaj Mishra
#44. In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.
Silvio Berlusconi
#45. I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.
Stewart Butterfield
#46. Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
Clayton Christensen
#47. It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.
Alison Mosshart
#48. Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.
Joyce Giraud
#49. The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.
Tom DeMarco
#50. A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.
Richard Fortey
#51. I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
Lesley Ann Warren
#52. You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#54. Organizations are great only when their people work as hard for each other as they do for themselves.
Sheri Staak
#55. When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit
I do nothing.
Frank Oz
#56. Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
Benny Blanco
#57. As Sun cofounder Bill Joy noted, no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.
Eric Schmidt
#58. I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.
Jack LaLanne
#59. Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
Lakshmi Mittal
#60. I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.
Anna Wintour
#61. Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.
Robert Kiyosaki
#62. There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.
Dov Davidoff
#63. Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
#64. Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
John Muir
#65. Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
Bill Joy
#66. Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.
Orrin Woodward
#67. My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
Michel Gondry
#68. A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
Simon Sinek
#69. One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
Maria Menounos
#70. The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened ... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
Genevieve Gorder
#71. I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.
Robert Six
#72. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits for the perfect time to whisper in your ear, "Look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift up your head and you may notice.
Amy Poehler
#73. I believe people work for satisfaction.
Akio Morita
#74. People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.
Robert Watson
#75. All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox?
Saurabh Sharma
#76. So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.
Sam Altman
#77. Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
Peter Drucker
#78. I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.
Moshe Safdie
#79. When people work hard at what they do the best,
We often think of them as unlike the rest.
But they aren't really different than others you meet.
Just everyday people who accomplished some feat.
Anne Emerick
#81. If 125 crore people work together; India will move forward 125 crore steps.
Narendra Modi
#82. More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#83. Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.
Chris Gabrieli
#84. If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
Dolly Parton
#85. I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
Larry Bird
#86. You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.
Veronica Roth
#87. Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.
Sharon Stone
#88. If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.
Liberace
#89. As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development.
Shakti Gawain
#90. The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter
#91. Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'
Alison Gopnik
#92. There are people who like to work in chaos, and some people work better under that, and create that sort of chaos, but that makes a set not necessarily very fun. I like to work on sets that don't have that.
George Clooney
#93. It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
Jimmy Wales
#94. Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with these people than you do your own family. Pre-season is the time we get used to each other and work out how people work. It can be a lot of fun. Hard but fun.
Colin Kazim-Richards
#95. A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.
Isabel Allende
#96. The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#97. Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.
Roger Craig Smith
#98. Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.
Kenya Moore
#99. In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.
Eric Drooker
#100. In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.
Russell Hornsby
