Will To Work Quotes

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

I have to go. Boss hasthis weird idea that I should actually work while he’s payingme.

If you work you will never go hungry.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.

Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."

I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.

The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.

Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.

Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

Chance favours only those who know how to court her.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.