Work
Joseph Conrad on Work
“I don’t like work… but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Erma Bombeck on Life
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”.
Robert Frost on Work
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
Victor Hugo on Thought
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
James M. Barrie on Work
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
Oscar Wilde on Income
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
Andy Rooney on Computers
“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”
Bob Hope on Sports
“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.”
Robert Copeland on Committees
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.”
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
A. H. Weiler on Power
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
Samuel Johnson on Work
“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”
De La Lastra’s Law
“After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.”
Peter Drucker on Work
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Thomas Jefferson on Luck
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Charles Peters on Politics
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.”
Anatole France on Work
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
Jay Leno Cynical Quote
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.”
Mark Twain on Procrastination
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
Harry S. Truman on Economy
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”
Jesse Owens on Dreams
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
Mahatma Gandhi on Work
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
Elbert Hubbard on Vacations
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
Doug Larson on Work
“Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.”