Workplace Quotes

“A meeting is a place where you keep the minutes and lose the hours.”

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”

“The conversation about sexual harassment has to move from being a 'women's issue' to a human rights issue, a workplace issue, a leadership issue.”

“Safety is not a priority. It's a precondition.”

“A bureaucrat's castle is his desk...and parking place. Proceed cautiously.”

“There is no secret to my management. I only sought to create a company where engineers can work with joy.”

“When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.”

“For nearly two decades, I have held my tongue and even made excuses for certain events that traumatized me to this day.”

“The people on the front lines have the best information about what's really going on.”

“I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.”

“Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler.”

“Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.”

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“I feel like all my kids grew up, and then they married each other. It’s every parent’s dream.”

“The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.”

“In some ways, the problem is not so much that we don't have enough women in leadership. The problem is what happens when women get into leadership.”

“If you have a group of men who are used to telling dirty jokes, and they are not used to having women around, you are going to have some dirty jokes.”

“There can be no real political democracy without industrial democracy.”

“It's not the people you fire who are chained to the office, it's the people you don't.”

“Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the sense that she must be virtuous.”