Conor McGregor Quotes

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

All I do is work, that's all my life is work.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

… obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

I just see myself in work mode. I'm like a robot: go in, work, go home. Autopilot.

I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

My process has changed in recent years because I now have two young kids. I have to be more regimented. The days are very short.

I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.