Motivational Quotes

Work

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

11.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The person 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?

Rogers, Will

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

18.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

30.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

33.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

37.

Work is a four letter word!

38.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

43.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.