A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station. Author Unknown
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error. Dennis Miller
A man can do nothing better than to find satisfaction in his work. King Solomon
Anyone who sees in his own occupation merely a means of earning money degrades it; but he that sees in it a service to mankind ennobles both his labor and himself. A. Lawrence Lowell
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. Alistair Cooke
Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That's a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it. You can attract more money from love. Dr. Joe Vitale
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. Executive Speechwriter Newsletter
Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success. Josh Kaufman
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? Steve Jobs
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't. Unknown Author
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell
Every job has its problems. A key consideration in choosing a career is determining what type of problems you enjoy solving. Steve Elledge
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. Author Unknown
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. Jim Fox
For the most part, treat consumers pretty well. The way to get rich in business is to create something good, sell it for a reasonable price, acquire a reputation for honesty and keep pleasing customers so they come back for more. John Stossel, TV consumer reporter
Given the amount of time we spend working, failure to find meaningful, significant work is not just a minor misstep in living out God's plan; it is a deeper kind of failure that can make each day feel like living death. Dan Miller
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Peter Drucker
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. Robert Bosch
If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor. Frank Lloyd Wright
If it was easy, everyone would do it. Hugh Butler
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' Dave Barry
If you have a job without aggravations, you dont have a job. Malcolm Forbes
thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks. Author Unknown
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. Warren Buffett
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. Groucho Marx
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard
Many of us decided what we would do for a living when we were 18 to 22 years old, and have been stuck there since. Now that I'm older, there is no way I'd take the advice of an 18-to-22-year-old on what my occupation should be. So if you find yourself without a job, use this opportunity to renew your life, find out what really excites you, and go for it. Author Unknown
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Author Unknown
Never confuse your career with your life. Blaine Nay
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. Rodan of Alexandria
Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others. Sir John Templeton
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust and reward those whose perspective, ability and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance and wisdom. Dee W. Hock (Fast Company)
No matter what business you're in, if you try to see how much you can give for a dollar instead of how little, you're bound to succeed. Author Unknown
No one else can help you in holding a job except Old Man You. Edgar Watson Howe
On any given day, I can get one half the workers to kill the other half. Robber Baron Jay Gould on the eve of an unsuccessful strike against his Southwestern System (Missouri Pacific Railroad) in 1876
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made. Jean de La Fontaine
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. Joe Gibbs: Redskins coach
People who roll up their sleeves seldom lose their shirts. Gene Mora in Graffiti
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Greer Garson
The best executive is the man who has the sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling them while they do it. Teddy Roosevelt
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method. Colin L. Powell
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your career! Earl Nightingale
The closest to perfection anyone ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. Stanley J. Randall
The employment we choose should be honorable and challenging. Howard W. Hunter (Ensign, Nov. 1975, p 122)
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer....He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. Robert L. Schwartz
The 'minimum wage' is...a legal barrier to trade in labor. As economists have long argued, higher minimum wage laws lead to less employment. Paul Jacob
The most important difference between business and academia is this: In business everything is dog-eat-dog. In academia it is just the reverse. E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, youd still be doing it. Youve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning. Warren Buffett
The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch
The principle of work has been taught from the foundation of the world. It is the bottom line of any forward motion of success. F. David Stanley (Ensign, May 1993, p 44)
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth. Alexander Hamilton
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. George Crane
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer
There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life. Stuart Wilde
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider. The latter make up for it by being better workers. Bertolt Brecht
There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. K. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl S. Buck
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job. Lena Horne
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. Samuel Gompers
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. Francis Bacon
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. Calvin Coolidge
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. Betty Bender
While we are taught to develop our talents and provide for our families, nevertheless we must be careful not to let the pursuit of our career path divert us from the gospel path. Joseph B. Wirthlin (167th Annual General Conference)
Work fascinates me -- I could sit and watch it all day. Author Unknown
Work is accomplished by those employees who are still striving to reach their level of incompetence. Author Unknown
Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity. Neal A. Maxwell (Ensign, May 1998, p 37)
Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. Voltaire
Work smarter -- not harder. Blaine Nay
Work harder. Millions on welfare depend on you. Author Unknown
Work though we must, our jobs do not automatically determine our priorities concerning our marriages, our children, our social life, or even our health.
were still responsible for making [life] something we enjoy or endure. Melinda M. Marshall
You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done. Larry Winget
You can fail to achieve any of the things you planned and still live a happy and fulfilled life, because of opportunities that come along that you never planned for. But these opportunities can be missed if you stick doggedly to your preconceived blueprint. Thomas Sowell
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time." Brian Tracy
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