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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Reagan, Ronald

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. 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 what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bob Ross

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

James M. Barrie

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Proverb, American

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Frost, Robert

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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.

John Ruskin

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work