Work Quotes

“The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work.”

“It is not the number of hours you put in, but what you put in the hours that counts.”

“A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make pictures.”

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

“Work is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“For it is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

“A man can be an artist at anything.... It is the spirit of the man in his work that makes him an artist.”

“Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a brilliant idea, it's to find the brilliance in the implementation.”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

“We are entering a new phase in human history — a phase in which the perennial scarcity of human labor is being replaced by a surplus of human labor.”

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

“Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”

“The best science is done by people who are passionate about their work.”

“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.”

“Business is more exciting than any game.”

“From labour, health; from health, contentment springs.”

“I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best work when they’re right up against it.”

“The best way to get rid of tormenting thoughts, is to be diligently employed.”