Tom Rath Quotes

I get to choose the people I work with.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I hear some horror stories from other channels, and I think what a blessing to work with a team of people that you're genuinely happy to hang with. I don't feel I need to dominate 'Newsnight.'

I have made so many friends at Google it's not funny.

Most of the people I work with become family friends.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Religious people are happier.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

If you join a growth organization, you'll likely do different things in different roles throughout your career. It's excellent to learn and build with others. You'll meet people you want to work with.

I am Brazilian, and I can't offer my best performance if I'm not happy in every aspect of life.

We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.

I like to think I'm a grown-up, but it's just nice you can have a civil conversation with your boss, you're both on the same page, and you've had a text, not about football, just about golf.

Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.

Hallmark has been really, really good to me. It is very much like a family. I'm friends with producers here, not because 'maybe if I befriend this person they'll give me a job,' but because they're good humans and we became friends in the process of working together.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.