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The number one counter to distractions is interesting, fulfilling work.
— Jason Fried
Third, show them work often. This is the best way to chip away at a client's natural situational anxiety. Look, they're paying you big bucks for your work, and it's totally natural for them to begin feeling anxious the moment they send you the deposit. So show them what they're paying for.
— Jason Fried
The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.
— Jason Fried
Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness. According
— Jason Fried
The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.
— Jason Fried
God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.
— David Jeremiah
He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...
— Edith Wharton
The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
— Edward Welch
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
— Albert Schweitzer
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
— Samuel Johnson
The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
— Erwin McManus
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
— Andrew Jackson