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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
Walt Disney
The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.
Leo Tolstoy
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career.... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.
Steve Jobs
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
George Eliot
If a task has once begun. Never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small. Do it well or not at all.
Anon.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Sup
A man working is a symbol of mankind at its best. It is a monument of concentration, of pooling knowledge and experience, of fitting facts and figures, towards the creation of usefulness.
Ronald C. M. Koh, (quotation sub
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.
Thomas A. Buckner
Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.
Mamie Sypert Burns
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
The Devil finds work for idle hands.First Appeared in 1721
Proverb, 1721
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.
Robert Kiyosaki
