Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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.

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.

If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself?

Work is much more fun than fun.

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

I love coming in and changing magazines.

I enjoy working on whatever I'm working on.

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

Work without fun is like peanut butter without jelly.

I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.