WORK QUOTES III
quotations about work
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I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.
SCOTT ADAMS
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Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert
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A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
As technology advances and employees demand greater flexibility and mobility, the word "work" will continue to take on new and different meanings. Ultimately, though, from the perspective of employers, the goal will stay the same: to bring people, content and technology together in a single, unified content-experience platform that promotes effective team collaboration and improves business performance.
PAIGE O'NEILL
"The definition of work is shifting", Network World, March 13, 2017
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
JOHN DOS PASSOS
Airways Inc
In this society we live in now, our work is a 24/7 reality for most people.
DAWN WHITE
"Lower Allen Township Police begin 90-day trial of 12-hour work days", abc27, April 1, 2017
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE
Satires
How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
MICHELLE OBAMA
speech at Democratic National Convention, September 4, 2012
We are not people who believe only in the survival of the fittest. Work in America is more than a paycheck; it a source of pride, self-reliance and identity.
JOHN MCCAIN
speech, June 3, 2008
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Autobiography
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
EMILY BRONTË
Wuthering Heights
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on Virginia
It's all too tempting to assign your over-performing employees the most important tasks; you trust their work will be of the utmost quality, and they can clearly do their job very well. Yet, where do you draw the line? The more duties you allocate to a select few workers could have harmful effects on them, the team or even the company's performance.
LIZZI HART
"10 reasons why giving your best employee more work is a terrible idea", Business Insider, February 10, 2016
Online and on-demand work is changing the way an increasingly large chunk of the population puts money in their pockets, opening up new opportunities for professionals to work from home or connect with local opportunities using an app. Businesses benefit by being able to outsource work to people across the world and employees benefit by being able to make money on their own terms.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
"8 Companies Shaping the Future of the Booming Online Work Economy", Entrepreneur, February 10, 2016
The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
My Heart Laid Bare
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Notebooks
Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
My Heart Laid Bare
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
BILL CLINTON
speech in Memphis, November 13, 1993
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Made to Last
Work was associated with a war, and military jargon became part of everyday work life. We are led by "officers", we "kill the competition", "target" clients, work "in the trenches" and "on the front lines", develop "strategy" and "drive campaigns".
NATALIA BLAGOEVA
"Thank God It's Monday and the End of Work-Life Balance", Huffington Post, March 21, 2017