Jay Mohr Quotes

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

I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.

I think we all spend, sometimes, more time at our jobs than we do at home, and there are people that we wouldn't necessarily choose to spend so much time with. So those irritations and those, just those situations I think are really relatable.

If I was going to go into an office I wanted it to be with people I would choose to be around even if we didn't have to work together and so that was one of the major reasons why I decided out of all the different companies we invested in to work with Zappos.

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.

We're a small office and I don't have any room for nice political people who don't know anything about drugs.

It's really fun to come to the same place to work every day.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

People are freer in America. But there are more tears.

When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.

When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to look at their people -- not at how much more they can get from their people or how they can more effectively manage their people. I think they need to look a little more closely at what it's like for their people to come to work there every day.

With any job the main thing that makes the job is the people.

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

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

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.

I've worked in an office. People are sitting down doing their stuff, or pretending to do their stuff, and they're bored. I've heard a car tire screech and 30 people went to the window. That was a piece of excitement in their day, that a car might have had to stop quickly, you know. You don't need dinosaurs, you know.

I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.