981 private quotes tagged work

“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.” — John Ruskin

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“Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.” — Alice Hoffman

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“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.” — Joseph Campbell

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“You reach a point where you don't work for money.” — Walt Disney

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“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” — Bette Davis

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“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.” — Cesar Chavez

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“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” — Ray Kroc

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“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.” — Julia Cameron

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“Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.” — Craig Bruce

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“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.” — Ron Livingston

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“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?” — Jenny McCarthy

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“Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.” — Marc Chagall

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“The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.” — Charles Handy

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“That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.” — Lukas Foss

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“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben

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“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.” — Sholom Aleichem

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“I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.” — Drew Brees

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“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

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“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.” — Natalie Gulbis

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“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.” — Bette Davis

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“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.” — Demi Lovato

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“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.” — David Bowie

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“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.” — Lewis Thomas

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