Work Quotes
“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
-- Earl Nightingale
“The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.”
-- Havelock Ellis
“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”
-- John F. Kennedy
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
-- Calvin Coolidge
“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.”
-- Frank Gehry
“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”
-- Eugene V. Debs