Brian Baumgartner Quotes

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.'

I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'

I always get so excited when I get to go to my friends at corporate offices. I am always, like, looking around. I think that's really exciting to be a part of an actual corporate office.

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

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.

I never worked in an office in my life.

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

People need a space that they can go to make a conference or Skype call. It's important to create those spaces and create a company culture that supports those spaces.

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

I think Tesla doesn't sound like it has a very collaborative culture.

I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.