Tom Rath Quotes

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

Work is no longer challenging.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

I believe that work is essential to human well-being.

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

I love my job, but it's more than that: I need it.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

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.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

I'm just glad to be able to work.

It's so hard to work that I feel so lucky any time I get to work.

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

I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.

I feel really good at United and I hope to stay here for a long time.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.