Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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 outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.

I've worked in many companies, and I think that, number one, if you are going to have a great environment, you produce great work... If people are happy, that's what's important. Life is short.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

Others may recognise their world in 'Eat Sleep Work Repeat'. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why.

Emmerdale' is a great place to work and I genuinely wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be.

Work satisfaction is important to me.

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

Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

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.

No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to be more effective.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

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.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.