526 Quotes About Work-ethic

Hang On To People That Inspire You. Do Work That Energises You.

Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.

Allow the beauty of all that we love be reflected in who we are and in our actions.

If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.

Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave,down into the urine-stinkingelevator, they have you crucified too, America at work, where they rip out your intestinesand your brain and your will and your spirit. They suck you dry, then throw you away. The capitalist system. The work ethic. The profit motive. The memory of your father’s words,“work hard and you’ll be appreciated.” of course, only if you make much more for them than they payyou.

Tout ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait mérite et exige d'être bien fait.

Without a deadline, your work is never over. The power of deadlines leads your work to completion. What is done poorly is better than what is 20% done perfectly assuming person operates on a progress-driven mindset. Then you can improve to make things less bad faster.