“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I
am satisfied.”
Alfred Nobel
“Every
day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben
“The
whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
Lady Reading
“One
of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that
one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell
“Motivation
is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Ryuh
“You’ve
got to think about ‘big things’ while you’re doing small
things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
Alvin Toffler
“Find
out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
Katherine Whitehorn
“I
find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Distrust
any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Ask
her to wait a moment – I’m almost done.”
Carl Friedrich Gauss, while working, when informed that his wife
is dying.”
“Nothing
is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
“Thinking
is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage
in it.”
Henry Ford
“The
world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing
to let them.”
Robert Frost
“There
are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the
credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
Indira Gandhi
“The
man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.”
Thomas Cowan
“Every
now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back
to your work your judgement will be surer since to remain constant at
work will cause you to lose power of judgement. Go some distance away
because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at
a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Opportunity
is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks
like work.”
Thomas A. Edison
“The
highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.”
John Ruskin
“The
best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.”
Sir William Osler
“Be
thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less
ability might have your job.”
Unknown
“Find
a job you like and you add five days to every week.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Do
your work. Not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing
sake, that little more which is worth all the rest. And if you suffer
as you must, and if you doubt as you must, do your work. Put your heart
into it and the sky will clear. And then out of your very doubt and suffering
will be born the supreme joy of life.”
Dean Briggs
“The
only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Donald Kendall
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