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What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and large, the more roles, the greater the happiness. Parents were happier than nonparents, and workers were happier than nonworkers. Married people were much happier than unmarried people. Married people were generally at the top of the emotional totem pole.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

When it comes to making more money, most people look at the world and see the same opportunities they've seen before: typically, a job. Because they don't awaken their mind and expand their vision, they don't see other opportunities. Yet opportunities do exist. So how do you change your thinking so you can see them? One way to jolt the brain out of its preconceived category thinking is to bombard it with new experiences.

When men are employed they are best contented.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

When you are giving a certain portion of your life to people and you're selling it sexually, you're selling it sensually, and you're selling it romantically - for you to then take that portion that you give only to fans away and to give it to one person, it kind of... if they don't approve, it might be crickets for me.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.