Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.
Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
I need to work to feel well.
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