work Quotes

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

All wealth is the product of labor.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.