Quotes on Work

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Work while others are wishing.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.