Job Meaning Quotes

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.