Work
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- If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you—like a fever.
- If you need inspiration, don’t do it.
- If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.
- If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.Thomas WatsonSourced
- If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.
- If you want work well done, select a busy man , the other kind has no time.Elbert HubbardSourced
- If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him.
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
- If you’re commited to doing your best work at all times, your best work is always today.
- I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love.
- Implementation, not strategy, is what usually separates winners from losers in most industries, and generally explains the difference between success and failure
- Impossible is the precept "Know thyself," till it be translated into this partially possible one, "Know what thou canst work at.
- In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
- In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
- In science as in the lottery, luck favors he who wagers the most — that is... the one who is tilling constantly the ground in his garden. If Pasteur discovered bacterial vaccines by accident, he was assisted by genius.
- In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
- Indolence is the sleep of the spirit.
- Industry can do anything which Genius can do; and very many things which it cannot.
- Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
- Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
- Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.
- Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
- Instead of the question, "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do?"
- It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth
- It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.
- It is better to live on the crust of your own industry than on the fruits of other people's.
- It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.Peter F. DruckerSourced
- It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done.
- It is no man's business whether he has genius or not: work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily; and the natural and unforced results of such work will always be the things that God meant him to do, and will be his best.
- It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
- It is not luck, nor is it great mental endowments, but it is well directed, honest toil.
- It is not our job to judge our own work. It is our job to create it, to pour ourselves into it, and to master our craft as best we can.
- It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthful, worry is rust upon the blade. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.
- It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.Thomas CarlyleSourced
- It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawns upon you.
- It pays—not merely altruistically, but in good, hard, round dollars—to give a little more value than seems necessary, to work a bit harder than you are paid for.