“There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.”
– William B. Given, Jr.
“When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.”
– Betty Bender
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
– Henry J. Kaiser
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. “
– Richard Bach
“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”
– William Lyon Phelps
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.”
– Warren Beatty
“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
– Pearl Buck
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
– Peter Drucker
“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
– David Rockefeller