Mary Parker Follett Quotes

The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.

I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.

I don't believe in chasing people for work.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

I have always worked to start.

Because I started at such a young age, I went in with a 'take what comes, do what I'm told' approach.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I don't get paid by the hour; I go out there and get it done and get out. That's the way I want it to be.

I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that's work ethic. Because, if you demonstrate that your capabilities extend past your current job, they'll probably give you a better job.