Work Quotes

• It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

• A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

• Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

• I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

• If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

• When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

• When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

• The days you work are the best days.

• When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.

• If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.

• If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

• I do not like work even when someone else does it.

• Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

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