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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt on work

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi on work

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West on work

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt on work

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt on work

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers on work

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie on work

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on work

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Michael Jackson on work

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King on work

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
John Carmack on work

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison on work

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato on work

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell on work

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on work

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand on work

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass on work

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner on work

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
Mitt Romney on work

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney on work