Will Speck Quotes

There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.

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.

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

What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming.

If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

It seems like those of us who run a business can't go five minutes without encountering the term "company culture." The phrase is always uttered with extreme adoration, yet the very concept seems as nebulous as it is elusive.

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

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.

I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.