Workplace Quotes - Page 7

• Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Law

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Sex, Home, Space

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• If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Creativity, Thinking, Light

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

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• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Struggle, Simple, Two

  "Celebrating Family and Medical Leave Act With Family Values" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

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• That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

  Thomas Carper

  Enzymes, Plant, Crops

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• A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile.

  Dennis Bakke

  Fun, Real, Team

  Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.75, PVG

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• Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

  Dennis Bakke

  Exercise, People, Achievement

  Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.148, PVG

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• Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Mean, Quality, Progress

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• I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.

  Paula Jones

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

  "Paula Jones: 'I feel I have won'". www.cnn.com.

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• People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Work, Coffee

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Economy, Secure

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• We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.

  Janet Reno

  Effort, Trying, Principles

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• The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

  Larry Winget

  Reality, Humanity, World

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.89, Penguin

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• In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, Years, Law

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's State of the Union address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Social Values, Economic

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

  Michael Moore

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you're in a workplace you don't like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness - and He's putting His confidence in you!

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Light, Darkness

  "Can We Really Be Content?" by Joyce Meyer, www.christianpost.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

  Alexis Herman

  Smart, Fairness, Inclusion

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

  John C. Reilly

  Hollywood, Months, Illusion

  "John C. Reilly: this much I know". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2013.

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• The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the opposition of major corporations. On nearly every issue, from fair labor standards, to the minimum wage, to environmental standards, to standards for a safe workplace, corporations have fought against them every step of the way.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Issues, Political

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• Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Men, Justice

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Keys, Top Management

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