A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Every man loves what he is good at.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.
Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.
I’m working myself to death.
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
I always got my work done before playing.
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
I work to stay alive.
I mean I don’t really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you’re very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn’t end. There’s other ways to make money, better jobs.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
