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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
Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can
operate without. -- Executive Speechwriter Newsletter
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
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
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 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 don’t have a job. -- Malcolm Forbes
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -- Jerome
K. Jerome
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 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 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 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)
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'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 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
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