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WORK Quotes
The only place success comes
before work is in the dictionary.
?Vince Lombardi or
?Donald Kendall
My grandfather once told me that
there are two kinds of people:
those who do the work and those
who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was less competition there.
?Indira Gandhi
I love deadlines.
I like the whooshing sound
they make as they fly by.
?Douglas Adams
There are no menial jobs,
only menial attitudes.
?William Bennett
The world is full of willing people;
some willing to work, the
rest willing to let them.
?Robert Frost
When work is a pleasure,
life is a joy; when work is a
duty, life is slavery.
?Maksim Gorky
One machine can do the work
of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man.
?Elbert Hubbard
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly
unless one has plenty of work to do.
?Jerome K Jerome
One of the symptoms of an approaching
nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important.
?Bertrand Russell
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this
country are decent, hard-working, honest
Americans. It's the other lousy two
percent that get all the publicity.
But then--we elected them.
?Lily Tomlin
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work he is
supposed to be doing at the moment.
?Robert Benchley
Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
?Thomas Edison
Hard work spotlights the character
of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses,
and some don't turn up at all.
?Sam Ewing
Real success is finding you lifework
in the work that you love.
?David McCullough
Executive ability is deciding quickly
and getting somebody else to do the work.
?John G. Pollard
Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella
when the sun is shining and wants
it back the minute it begins to rain.
?Mark Twain
?Lawyer: A person who writes a 10,000-word
document and calls it a "brief."
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