Work Quotes
“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.”
-- Cesar Chavez
“How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.”
-- Jim Valvano
“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
-- Andy Warhol
“I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.”
-- Barack Obama
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
-- Stendhal
“I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.”
-- Harry Connick, Jr.
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”
-- Og Mandino
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
-- Henry Ford
“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”
-- Michael Jordan
“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”
-- Harold S. Geneen
“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”
-- David Sarnoff
“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”
-- Lascelles Abercrombie
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
-- Tom Stoppard