“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”

“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”

“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”

“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”

“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.”

“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”

“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”