Cress Williams Quotes

It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empowerment must not only be connected to the job that you do.

I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire.

I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.

The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.

For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.

Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way.

I want to work with good people and good directors.

I think the best thing that Jonathan and I have done is… having really strong people working with us - our work environment and all of our employees and everybody, we're like one big family.

There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.