work philosophy Quotes

People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

To work is to live without dying.

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.

It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.