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

“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”

-- Ernest Hemingway

“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”

-- Marc Anthony

“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.”

-- Jesse Ventura

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

-- Evan Esar

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

-- Horace

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

-- J. Paul Getty

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

-- John Lubbock

“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”

-- Thomas Carlyle

“I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.”

-- Amy Adams