Michael Laudrup Quotes

People want the dignity of work.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.

Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I won't give up my day job of design.

Working is living to me.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

I like the work that I get to do.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.