“You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.”

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”

“I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.”

“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.”

“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.”

“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.”

“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.”

“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”

“Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.”

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

“I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.”

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”

“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”

“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.”

“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”

“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”

“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”

“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”