Quotes About Work

Some individuals appear to be "allergic" to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.

Have you noticed that the most effective worker is generally the busiest?

Men who can do things are discovered. They need not push themselves to the front. Good men are scarce, and the great successful business men of today are the ones who know how to do the work that they are hiring employees to do. Talent in this direction will surely attract the attention of your superiors.

The Employer IS an Employer because he was once a good Employee. Thoroughness is at the bottom of Winning. No structure ever stood — built upon half sand and half stone. Be Thorough — stamping daily upon your very Brain, as a Motto, this thought —

deeds, and not words, are what count most'.

Have a definite purpose — Aim. There are no "Lucky Dogs." Winners are just the Workers with an Aim — that's all. The Successful business men of every city — the largest number of them — had nothing to begin with but a single Aim. What is their story now? The magnificent blocks, and great enterprises that make each city what it is. Have you an Aim? You only need ONE big central Aim. Get it without delay.

Hard work is the only thing that will turn sales training and ability into money. No

Do every detail of your day's work as though it was to be viewed by a Master eye. Make every job a great job. Put Dignity and Joy and Enthusiasm into everything attempted, forgetting not for the shortest minute that — Success Power is in the Reserve.

The world was never so resplendent with opportunity as it is today. On every hand there is an ever-increasing demand for the services of the man or the woman who makes a better mouse-trap or performs better stenographic service or preaches a better sermon or digs a better ditch or runs a more accommodating bank.

Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration. But giants will only do the work of dwarfs when they lack this power.

Little did he dream, when he went to work, that he was destined to bring hope and practical relief to thousands of deafened people who, without his help, would have been doomed forever to deaf mutism.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count—there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, or the equivalent of losing points in a soccer game, and this absence of negative domain for book sales provides the author with a measure of optionality.

whenever I hear work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).

you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

What he likes most about proprietary trading is that it requires considerably less time than other high-paying professions; in other words it is perfectly compatible with his non-middle-class work ethic. Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics, Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal

others paid by the hour are not there yet.

I have had the privilege to work with colleagues who have hidden paranoid disorders that come to the surface on occasion.

it just meant not deriving your personal and emotional identity from your work, and viewing work as something optional, more like a hobby.

The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work

Indeed much of the work of investment banks in my day was to play on regulations, find loopholes in the laws. And, counterintuitively, the more regulations, the easier it was to make money.