Work Quotes
“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?”
“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