Quotes About Work

A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way.

If an employer urges men to do their best, and the men learn after a while that their best does not bring any reward, then they naturally drop back into "getting by." But if they see the fruits of hard work in their pay envelope—proof that harder work means higher pay—then also they begin to learn that they are a part of the business, and that its success depends on them and their success depends on it.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

Without scientific study, an employer does not know why he is paying a wage and the employee does not know why he is getting it.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

You are not "saving" when you prevent yourself from becoming more productive.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to receive the highest possible pay. If each man were permitted to act in his own way, production would suffer and therefore pay would suffer. Any one who does not like to work in our way may always leave.