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1. "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Richness and Money

2. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Success and Fame

3. "Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."

Josh Billings

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

4. "A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it."

Scott Allen

Quotations about: Success and Fame

5. "Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

Gloria Steinem

Quotations about: Art and Culture

6. "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

7. "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: Life and Death

8. "Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

Bruce Lee

Quotations about: Various

9. "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

James Bryant Conant

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

10. "Man often finds relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another."

Anatol France

11. "Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows."

proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

12. "A BAD day's fishing still beats a GOOD day at work!"

Anon.

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

13. "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotations about: Life and Death

14. "Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit."

Anon.

Quotations about: Marriage

15. "If you rest, you rust."

Helen Hayes, "My Life in Three Acts"

16. "In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Woman and Man

17. "You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good."

Pat Bradley

Quotations about: Success and Fame

18. "Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Fawn M. Brodie

Quotations about: Education

19. "I am never in such good company as when I am alone; I am never so busy as when I have nothing to do."

Scipio Africanus

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

20. "An Artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Emile Zola

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Talent and Genius

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21. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

22. "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

Henri Matisse

Quotations about: Happiness

23. "Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."

Robert A. Heinlein

24. "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn

25. "The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."

William Jennings Bryan

Quotations about: Success and Fame

26. "No rules for success will work if you don't."

Anon.

Quotations about: Success and Fame

27. "Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Richness and Money

28. "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done."

Peter Drucker

Quotations about: Authority, Government

29. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

30. "Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?"

John Clarke

31. "One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Various

32. "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: God and Religion

33. "The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"

William Morris, "News From Nowhere"

Quotations about: Life and Death

34. "Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."

Floyd Dell

35. "In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

John C. Dvorak

Quotations about: Science and Technology

36. "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Richness and Money

37. "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Various

38. "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

George Bernard Shaw, "Parents and Children"

Quotations about: Happiness

39. "The shortest answer is doing."

English proverb

Quotations about: Question and Problem

40. "Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged."

St. Jerome, "Epistulae"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Good and Evil

41. "Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

John Lennon

Quotations about: Life and Death

42. "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

43. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare.""

C. Northcote Parkinson

Quotations about: Time and Passing

44. "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

45. "An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

46. "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form."

André Maurois, "The Art of Living"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

47. "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams

Quotations about: Various

48. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

49. "We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."

Roald Dahl

Quotations about: Time and Passing

50. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

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