Quotes About Work

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

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

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Business is business, no child's play.