Gary Larson Quotes

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

It's really fun to come to the same place to work every day.

I don't think that my job requires me to be competitive at all. I'm in my office by myself, or I'm in my writers' room with my people. I've chosen a job in which there's no competition allowed. It's probably best for everyone.

One of the beauties of working in Shondaland is that they make an effort to get to know who you are, so they're not giving you something that's going to be so far out of your comfort zone.

I keep my family involved in all business.

It's not just hours and pay that are important anymore. People want to know what the company is like, what the culture is.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.