Work Quotes

“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”

-- Barack Obama

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

-- Aristotle

“I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.”

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”

-- Thornton Wilder

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

-- Margaret Mead

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”

-- Jean Cocteau

“I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.”

-- Dick Wolf

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”

-- Michael Jackson

“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.”

-- Cicely Tyson

“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.”

-- Milton Friedman