Work Quotes

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

I intend to work until the day I die.

My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired ‘A Time to Remember’ to mobilize a movement for gun control.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.

I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don’t know the person, it’s like being on a blind date.

Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.