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There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I think that shows hard work pays off. A good thing takes a while.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.
... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.
Critique, feedback, reaction to one's work or the way they have presented it, regardless of intention, is a gift.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.
Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.
When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.