Quotes About Work

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

My delivery just got me buzzin like the pizza man

Men without jobs do not form families.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.