If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I like to work.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.

If you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I’m very good at it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.