“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
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“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”
“For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.”
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.”
“Management must manage!”
“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”
“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.”
“After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.”
“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”
“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
“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.”
“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.”
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
“It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.”