WORK QUOTES VIII

quotations about work

Work is the Rent we pay for our time on Earth.

TUBBY CLAYTON

attributed, Saga Magazine, January 2009


It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.

ALDO MANUZIO

attributed, Day's Collacon


If every man should work at that for which nature fitted him, the cows would be well tended.

FLORIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


If we look at things from a results level -- what hours one puts in -- which is, I think, where we're going in the future of work, then we're going to have to balance our lives a little better. And, therefore, the organisational challenge really will be how we facilitate people to do that.

MARGOT SLATTERY

"Data is absolutely essential to the future of work", Silicon Republic, March 23, 2017


I am not sure that life, to any one,
A fuller measure of contentment brings,
With all its gifts, than in the draught which springs,
From honest work, well plann'd, and bravely done.

WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN

"Labor"

Tags: William Wilsey Martin


Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

SCOTT ADAMS

Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland


Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch


Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

RICHARD PAUL EVANS

The Christmas Box

Tags: Richard Paul Evans


How technology will transform the future of work is the burning question. And interestingly, when I talk with other executives about it, the conversation quickly moves from the technology itself -- to the people. Because at the heart of this digital revolution are human beings. And companies are trying to get their arms around what this Liquid Workforce means for their business, customers, communities and employees.

ELLYN SHOOK

"The Future of Work Is Now", Huffington Post, January 19, 2016


Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

SOLOMON

Proverbs 22:29


Having boundaries in life, especially at work, is important for protecting our happiness. Boundaries allow us to say no when we need to, but also mean we can say yes when the opportunity is right.

LOUISE LAMBERT

"You can't do it all: turning down work is sometimes a necessity", Albawaba Business, February 3, 2016


A man who looks for easy work goes to bed tired.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

Tags: Ken Alstad


The truth is, any of us in a position to choose and chase work out of love do so from a place of relative privilege. Overwhelmingly, work in the world is done for income, and income alone, and love doesn't even get a look-in.

SIMON CASTLES

"Do what you love mantra devalues hard work", The Age, February 9, 2016


Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

KARL MARX

"Alienated Labor", Economic and Philosophic


When master and workmen unite the work is soon done.

WAKATAUKI

attributed, Day's Collacon


It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothin' ever really seems to come from it.

TOM PETTY

Here Comes My Girl

Tags: Tom Petty


We need economy that rewards work, not just wealth.

JOE BIDEN

speech on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Tags: Joe Biden


The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

KARL MARX

"Alienated Labor", Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts