Paul Hawken Quotes

More efficient workers are always in an employer's best interest.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

I employ thousands of people, maybe 5,000 or 6,000. In my mind, they are all doing well. Because if they are not doing well in their minds, I'm not as strong as I could be.

When men are employed, they are best contented.

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

You look at the staff, the whole staff, from the security to the nutritionists, everybody. Everybody's happy. They want to be there. They look like they want to be in the UFC.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

Well, I like to have fun at work.

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I've been asked a number of times what was my proudest accomplishment when I was still very active in the day-to-day affairs of Southwest Airlines. I always said job security for our people.

No matter what the figures are in the workplace in terms of wages, you either feel a valued member of your staff, or you don't.

To those out of work, it may seem unfair for someone to complain that they aren't happy with the type of work they are doing, but the more we like our jobs, the better we do them. In the long run, this doesn't just make us happy - it makes businesses more successful and increases employment even further.

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.

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