Coworkers Quotes

“Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

“Everyone needs a support system, be it family, friends, coworkers, therapists, or religious leaders. We cannot do life alone and expect to keep mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Everyone needs some sort of support system on which to rely.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Each [co-worker] works his or her way, not your way. And each is entitled to work in his or her way. What matters is whether they perform and what their values are. As far as how they perform--each is likely to do it differently. The first secret to effectiveness is to understand the people you work with and depend on so that you can make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values. Working relationships are as much based on the people as they are on the work.”
― Peter Drucker

“Your work isn’t simply your job description, title, or industry. It’s when you wake up, what you wear, and your first 30 minutes in the office. It’s what your office is or is not, the five people you are physically closest to, and whether you can get up and walk or have to sit all day. It’s whether you fear for your job due to changing laws or innovation each day. It’s how it fits with your family and all the people and events that matter most. It’s the person you are when you come home.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“The path to the best possible career starts with the Who Model. Stop doing what you love, and start working with great people in a great environment, with a bit of time flexibility. Watch your productivity, creativity, and wellbeing soar.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass.”
― Brian Clevinger, 8-Bit Theater

“You should be concerned when your girlfriend tells you she is regularly going to ‘Happy Hour’ with her coworkers.”
― Steven Magee

“I had definitely never heard of anyone peeing in a cup and leaving it in their own office on a bookshelf to evaporate and be absorbed back into their body through the pores on their face.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Ben is twenty-six, and this is his first job. He is small, weedy, and terribly, terribly serious about his work. His. Not anyone else’s. He despises everyone else’s. He has, however, produced our only literary fiction in the last two years that has sold over five thousand copies, so people listen to him. Which is a pity, since he doesn’t really have anything to say.”
― Judith Flanders, A Murder of Magpies

“One of the most dangerous sports a family can play together is running a business. That is why royal families are not known for having good relations with their relations.”
― George Hammond

“Pay attention to what your coworkers have died from, as some of my coworkers have died from gastrointestinal disease.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

“When I started becoming aware my coworkers were becoming diseased and some were prematurely dying, I knew something was wrong in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“Coworking together is not just about welcoming remote workers. It is important for real estate because it benefits both companies and their employees equally. Collaborating takes up the most important business and expensive costs — the workplace — and renders the service. The space-as-a-service model introduces balance sheets and creates staff flexibility.”
― wish coworker

“I'd hate to be buried with my coworkers!”
― Steven Magee

“My girlfriend would tell me she was flying out of town to a work conference with her coworkers. She did go to the conference, but it later emerged it was an excuse to meet up with her secret lover!”
― Steven Magee

“Having a job is tricky. You don't want to be so productive that you make your coworkers appear like slackers, and you don't want to do so little that your coworkers have to make up for your lack of effort.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“A person to think with is the most intimate
thing someone can have. And she has it, this connection that outlasts
the body’s demise, the heart’s tantrums.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“I had no interest in making small talk with their coworkers, who always commented on how big I'd gotten and how old I was, then shook their heads and murmured about how old they were, like that was somehow my fault.”
― Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard

“I knew coworkers that worked previously at the chocolate factory. They were told to eat as much chocolate as you want! They said they stopped doing it after a few weeks as it would make them sick!”
― Steven Magee