Ricky Gervais Quotes

Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

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.

The damned everlasting clatter for offices makes me feel like resigning.

You can take my job any time you’re ready.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

I was nineteen when I signed and then worked with three managers and just didn't play that much.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

I'm done in this business, that's for sure.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

Today's business climate is not for me.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.

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.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

Millennials tend to appreciate regular feedback because they want to feel that their work matters and that they are making a difference in the workplace. As the youngest generation at most organizations, they also tend to be hungry for growth and development opportunities.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.