Tom Rath Quotes

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

If I work 60 hours a week, for example, and I make much more money than someone who works 40 hours a week, is my standard of living higher? I suppose it depends on your values. If I do not have time, because I work 60 hours a week, to spend time with my children, I may not consider myself to have a high standard of living.

I would recommend that every woman who intends to take on a maid should do every bit of her own work first. When she knows exactly the time it takes, the hard work, the weariness it entails, then she can begin with intelligence to plan what her maid can do.

'Office Space' I loved doing.

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.

I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much.

There are many ways to deal with annoying coworkers, but obviously the most effective way is to picture them as rappers. Picturing your coworkers as rappers makes you laugh and provides a helpful nickname that can be used when talking about them behind their backs.

When a woman goes to work they don't want to date their boss.

I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in a work environment, then why go away from it?

Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.