Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

All progress is experimental.

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

A man's perfection is his work.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.

Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged to adopt: a positive attitude "attracts" or "fulfils", depending on which author's weird science you go with, postiive results, with little or no action on your part required. Herein, too, lies the answer to the question I once posed ...: would it be enough just to fake a winning attitude? No way, according to Doyle.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.