Learn Through Quotations

“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”

“Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.”

“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.”

“People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.”

“A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.”

“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”

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

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit .”

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”

“Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”

“All wealth is the product of labor.”

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ; It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ”

“All mothers are working mothers.”

“A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.”

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”

“We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.”