Workplace Quotes

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? (Ricardo Semler)
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. View quote
Carol Bellamy
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. View quote
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. View quote
Mona Sahlin
What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women. View quote
Camille Paglia
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. View quote
Meg Whitman
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. View quote
Mehmet Oz
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room. View quote
Andrew Weil
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace. View quote
Rainn Wilson
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. (Alexis Herman)
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. View quote
Bill Shorten
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society. View quote
Blanche Lincoln
These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. View quote
Charles Bass
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford. View quote
Carolyn Maloney
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. View quote
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. View quote
David Whyte
A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear. View quote
David Whyte
The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people. View quote
Jesse Schell
Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military. View quote
Kitty Kelley
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet. (Madeleine M. Kunin)
It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated. View quote
Monique Lhuillier
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing. View quote
Patricia Heaton
I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end. View quote
Paula Jones
I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong. View quote
Paulina Porizkova