Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
Management must manage!
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
