981 private quotes tagged work

“Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.” — Ann Landers

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison

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“Find a job you love and you'll never have to work again.”

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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison

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“Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.” — Kemmons Wilson

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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” — Lao Tzu

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“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” — Henry Ford

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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” — Rumi

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“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

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“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.” — J. Paul Getty

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“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.” — William Shakespeare

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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle

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“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.” — Lee Iacocca

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“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.” — Walt Disney

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“Work Is the Signal, Email Is the Noise”

Source:http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/next-big-thing-miss...

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“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu

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“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” — Mark Twain

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“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler

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