Workplace Values Quotes

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I didn't realize I was working in a family medium.

If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission - the value of people and how to truly appreciate them.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

As a cohort, millennials are unique in their social consciousness, and they make decisions based on that awareness. Keep them engaged at work by showcasing a culture of paying it forward and tying the day-to-day into the larger purpose of the organization.

Millennials want to work for organizations that prioritize purpose as well as profit. It's as simple as that.

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.

We strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it. However, portions of the memo violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace. Our job is to build great products for users that make a difference in their lives. To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK. It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects “each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination.”

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

I can say firsthand Under Armour is a values-based people company, and this hasn't deviated for any administration.

Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had to agree on how we should be with each other - and that way is unique. Because the logic behind being radically honest and radically transparent with each other wasn't clear, it had to be spelled out in these principles.

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.