Marcus Buckingham Quotes

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

I don't like to work. I am not helpless without work. Work is an obsession for me.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

Ultimately, this is about having fun at work. You want to enjoy your job. You're going to have higher-performing employees.

I really enjoy working. It doesn't tire me.

Employees can make happiness when they maximize their brainwork voluntarily and enthusiastically. Management should focus on setting up an atmosphere.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

Studies show that over 80 percent of Americans do not have their dream job. If more knew how to build organizations that inspire, we could live in a world in which that statistic was the reverse - a world in which over 80 percent of people loved their jobs. People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families. They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.

The most important thing is team morale.