“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”
Alfred Nobel
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
Lady Reading
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Ryuh
“You’ve got to think about ‘big things’ while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
Alvin Toffler
“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
Katherine Whitehorn
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Ask her to wait a moment – I’m almost done.”
Carl Friedrich Gauss, while working, when informed that his wife is dying.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
Robert Frost
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
Indira Gandhi
“The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.”
Thomas Cowan
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer since to remain constant at work will cause you to lose power of judgement. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.”
Thomas A. Edison
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
John Ruskin
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.”
Sir William Osler
“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”
Unknown
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Do your work. Not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing sake, that little more which is worth all the rest. And if you suffer as you must, and if you doubt as you must, do your work. Put your heart into it and the sky will clear. And then out of your very doubt and suffering will be born the supreme joy of life.”
Dean Briggs
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Donald Kendall
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