Quotes in work

If you're constantly thinking you need a vacation, maybe what you really need is a new life.


Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

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I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said,
"You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it."
And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!"
And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

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Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

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There are three kinds of leaders. Those that tell you what to do. Those that allow you to do what you want. And Lean leaders that come down to the work and help you figure it out.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.