Adam Scott Quotes

The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.

I worked in a Starbucks that wasn't very popular - before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn't take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, 'Look, I've dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out... I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.'

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

Listen: when you work for an employer for six years, are you gonna sit here and tell me you ain't gotta bad thing to say about them?

The worst kind of businesses are ones where there are no expectations set out for employees.

I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving.

I've never done anything that I need to be doing tomorrow. If someone says, 'We no longer want you here,' I won't show up again. It was true at 'The West Wing.' It was true in the Senate.

If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well.

At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well done.

When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It's just kind of the nature of the business, so I've never really focused on that. I'm just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.

The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.

Our philosophy at Zoom is to create a company that promotes self-motivation. I have told our managers not to spend too much time motivating employees. You have to create an environment where employees can motivate themselves. That is really important because self-motivation is more sustainable.

Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

You should be happy to spend ten to twelve hours a day wherever you work.

When you're trying to recruit a senior product manager from Hewlett-Packard, he doesn't want to work in a garage.

For me, my career and passion is InMobi. So I hardly get stressed working for it.

I have to justify my job every day.

The minute I stepped foot on the shop floor and started serving in a retail environment, I knew it was the career for me. I was a shop assistant for just one day, and I thought, 'This is it. This is the rest of my life. This is all I want to do.'

I love working, wherever it is.

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

I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you.