1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
J. Paul Getty

Work alone is noble.
Thomas Carlyle

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Edgar Winter

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
Louis C. K.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Donald Norman

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
Byron Dorgan

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
Frank Gehry

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold J. Toynbee

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
Mahalia Jackson

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards

Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen