William Bennett Quotes

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

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

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

Before I was elected President I thought the chief pleasure of it would be to give honors and offices to old friends. But you know you can't do that when you're President of the United States; you have to get the best men.

Don’t hire senior staff without Federal experience.

Dogs in the office are very important.

It's easy to imagine that because a certain company has a prestigious reputation or everyone says it's a great place to work, that it will be the perfect fit for you. But, in reality, the search to find a career is a much more individual process.

As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection and collaboration throughout our teams.

The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.

Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I've ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.

Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way.

It's not always about 'Can you do the job?' It's about 'Can you fit in with the team?'

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

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

Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.

Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.

When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

It does feel bizarre, having someone in your work space who's so much younger than you.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.