Quotes About Work

Why would you want to load down a business relationship with a lot of emotional baggage, including guilt, which can be the by-product of "friendship"? It doesn't work. It doesn't pay.

People who are unhappy and frustrated in their work either have invalid mission and purposes—"I want to make a million dollars before I'm twenty-one"—or they don't have one and are serving someone else's, and some part of them understands this at some deep level.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Hardworking people are always cheerful, for they have no time to manufacture imaginary troubles, which are always worse than real ones.

Passion is the work of seconds. You only have to make a god of what you most desire.

What has become of standing unashamed for the gospel of Christ? No one is smarter than God. When he says to do his work in his way, we can be assured that he will produce his results for his glory. We don't need to get "creative" on him. God knows exactly what we need to do and expects us to trust and obey him in childlike simplicity.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'

That tiny part of your soul that believes in a 'good government' ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment of the civil service that is attracted to the work precisely because it doesn't really want to work.

Love at Work Is a Lot of Work!

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

The essence of Agile movement, whether in new product development, new service offerings, software applications, or project management, rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products to customers and creating working environments in which people look forward to coming to work each day.

Democrats won't let you go to work, but they'll let you riot.

Employees take weekends off, entrepreneurs dont.

Put in the work. Sustainable culture change takes time, patience, persistence, know-how and passion, but it's not impossible and it's completely worthwhile.

Part of a leader's groundwork is in honing work ethic.

The performance demands that most people face in their everyday work environments dwarf those of any professional athletes we have ever trained.