Quotes About Work

In the United States they have the implicit, never mentioned, promise to go work for a bank at a later date with a sinecure offering, say $5 million a year, if they are seen favorably by the industry.

Separé la persona «idea», que vende un producto intelectual en forma de una transacción o un determinado trabajo, de la persona «trabajo», que te vende su trabajo. Si se es persona «idea», no hay que trabajar duro, sólo pensar con intensidad. Se hace el mismo trabajo tanto si se producen cien unidades como si se producen mil.

People who are not morally independent tend to fit ethics to their profession, rather than find a profession that fits their ethics.

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.

The doer wins by doing, not convincing.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk, and it would be unfair, wrong, and downright insulting to measure them in the talk department.

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.

Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours with sleep deprivation. Main course and dessert are separate.

So I have, accordingly, except for eight years, been self-employed.

Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.

an employee is also a risk-management strategy.

Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.

Returning to the home office means loss of perks, having to revert to his base salary

activities. It separates those professions in which one can add zeroes of income with no greater labor from those in which one needs to add labor and time (both of which are in limited supply)

Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work, and thus cliques of people who quote one another are formed (it's an "I quote you, you quote me" type of business).

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.

The willingness to experience and accept our feelings carries no implication that emotions are to have the last word on what we do. I may not be in the mood to work today; I can acknowledge my feelings, experience them, accept them—and then go to work. I will work with a clearer mind because I have not begun the day with self-deception.

Productiveness is the act of supporting our existence by translating our thought into reality, of setting our goals and working for their achievement, of bringing knowledge, goods, or services into existence.

In therapy I have found that one of the most powerful ways to help men and women become more effective in love relationships is to work with them on their relationship to their opposite-gender-self

Since self-esteem is a consequence, a product of internally generated practices, we cannot work on self-esteem directly, neither our own nor anyone else's.

There's a lot of work, a lot of writing, to be done, and there's no telling when the results will begin to show. But if Atlas Shrugged sells 50,000 copies, this culture's cooked.

So we can say that thinking independently—about our work, our relationships, the values that guide our life, the goals we set for ourselves—strengthens self-esteem. And healthy self-esteem results in a natural inclination to think independently.