“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”

“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”

“You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.”

“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.”

“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”

“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.”

“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”

“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”

“Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.”

“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”