Work Quotes
“The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.”
“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
-- Lucille Ball
“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”
-- Ramakrishna
“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”
-- Barack Obama
“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”
-- Susan B. Anthony
“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”
-- Henry Miller
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
-- Colin Powell