Quotes About Work

Successful persons don't dream about success, but work with full Focus and strong Determination to make Success happen. Lest we forget, only place where Success comes before Work is the Dictionary.

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work." -Skulduggery

I... I don't, I don't think I can do this." "Do what?" It didn't answer. "Do the tests?" "I can't work with you when you're like this!" it blurted. "To every one of my specimens, I am the last thing they see! Terrror is what I am used to-- terror is what I like! I prefer my subjects to scream and beg, not ask to see results!" "I'll scream my questions, if that helps." "It won't," it said sadly. "I'll know you're only trying to make me feel better.

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.