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Quotes About Work

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.
~ Ricky Gervais
I do voicework all the time.
~ Ron Perlman
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
~ Rufus Wainwright
Employees will only add more value over time.
~ Sam Altman
You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.
~ Sam Altman
Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.
~ Sam Altman
The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.
~ Scott Adams
I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.
~ Shalom Harlow
O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.
~ Sidney Lanier
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
~ Sloane Crosley
I didn't have weekends for the longest time and it felt so indulgent to finally have weekends.
~ Sophia Amoruso
I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.
~ Stan Lee
Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.
~ Stephanie Mills
I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.
~ Steve Zahn
I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.
~ Summer Glau
I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.
~ Tatiana Maslany
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
~ Tim Ferriss
Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.
~ Tina Fey
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
~ Val Kilmer
The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
~ Warren Farrell
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
~ Warren Farrell
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
~ Will Oldham
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.
~ William Thorsell
People always tell me I should run for president, but I don't think they'd give me enough time off to make my films.
~ Zach Braff