If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.
If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.
Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.
The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
I love being a part of CBS.
Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.
If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well.
I think, for me, it's very important to have a good team and to feel comfortable in the environment.
It's very important to have a good group of people that get along well, where the people come in to work and do it in a happy way, that they enjoy being at the club.
I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into.
I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.
I always found myself feeling that happiness rises and frustration trickles down. If the people at the top are frustrated, then everybody down the line feels that. But if the people at the bottom are happy and fulfilled, then they do their jobs a little better, and it goes up that way.
I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.
