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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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“Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
— Ann Landers
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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
— Thomas Edison
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“Find a job you love and you'll never have to work again.”
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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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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
— Oscar Wilde
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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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“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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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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“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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“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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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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“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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“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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“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
— Lee Iacocca
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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
— Aristotle
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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”
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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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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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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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