Quotes About Work

People expect because it is called 'Friends' that everyone was great friends, but they were real professionals.

There are lots of professions where your social following is key now. But chasing followers is strange to me. I'd rather focus on the work.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.

Millennials want to work for organizations that prioritize purpose as well as profit. It's as simple as that.

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.

For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

I can do something for 30 days or 50 days. I can program myself, but I can't give my year for a shooting. No, I will die. I can't handle it.

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.

As a child I started working. Again I had luck with my father's help financially, but I also had to work. I had a programme after training in the afternoon in which I would go in front of my house to do various things and the phone boxes was something I did to earn some money.

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

I've never been one of those programmers that works effectively on short amounts of sleep. I've always needed eight hours.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.