Quotes about Work

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

Walk into a library anywhere in the world and you'll notice the same thing: It's quiet and calm. Everyone knows how to behave in a library. In fact, few things transcend cultures like library behavior. It's a place where people go to read, think, study, focus, and work. And the hushed, respectful environment reflects that. Isn't that what an office should be?

Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?

Soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.