“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
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“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”
“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”
“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.”
“The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
“Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.”
“The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.”
“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.”
“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”