Erich Fromm Quotes

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

You can go a lot of places or make a lot of money, but there's nothing quite like having a job where people actually say to you, 'Thanks for making my life better.'

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

The primary goal I set for myself on how I define what success looks like for me is am I working at a company that matters? Am I working with somebody who I think affects positive change? Am I providing a benefit to my family? Am I enjoying myself? Why would I put a limitation on my enjoyment? There is an old view on Wall Street that says, 'They love you until they don't.' I am going to stay happy until I am not.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.