I wish to never stop working on the things I love.

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by...

In a billion dollar company, the employees aren’t working any harder than people in a million dollar company. They’re just doing the right things.

Now the main source of capital is how many “robots”, programmers, and machines you have working for you. Those are the ultimate force multipliers.

A principle for writing, investing, and life in general: It is much easier to notice when something is working than to predict ahead of time if it will work. Take action, make many small bets,...

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

It is awesome to note that the works your work are working but that should not be a joy. The ultimate joy should be that the works of your work are indelible.

When you can’t make it, just fake it

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for...

Clockers” asks–almost in passing, and there’s a lot more to it than this–a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals,...

Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that’s something we should continue doing.

Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit...

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Make your money work for you, don’t work for your money.

By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds.

I often ask, “What do you want to work at? If you have the chance. When you get out of school, college, the service, etc.” Some answer right off and tell their definite plans and...

When I’m not eating, sleeping, working, or doing a hundred other things, I’m making love. I need to arrange my priorities. Sleeping should be first.

If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone’s lifetime...

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only–to retire–and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman...

The government is so efficient it often takes two people to do the work of one. Actually, more accurately, it takes twice the manpower to do half the work.

But if man genuinely produces man, it is precisely not through work and it’s concrete results, not even the ‘work on oneself’ so widely praised in recent times, let alone through the alternatively invoked phenomena...

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it’s considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary

So I got a new job, and I start tomorrow. I’m excited to have a job, and bummed out I’m going to be working.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What’s the point?

The cool thing about unemployment is every day is Saturday.

It is not only the weary Homo faber, who objectifies the world in the ‘doing’ mode, who must vacate his place on the logical stage; the time has also come for Homo religiosus, who turns...

You can’t be too careful about work. It’s the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

You can work to create a bright future.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily–as we shall...

There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

I hate when a manager falls in love with an employee. Well, if she won’t date me, I just won’t put her on the schedule. If she won’t give me the time of day, I...

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people...

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

I can’t work well when I am under stress. It reduces me to normalcy. Stress is my kryptonite. And I usually don’t change in phone booths, though I do take long distance showers there.

It’s no use going the extra mile if people don’t expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable...

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can...

People say the early bird catches the worm. And it’s true! That’s why I work online in the middle of the night—to catch all the worms halfway across the world.

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who...

I go on giving interviews because I’ve been brought up to support the projects I’m involved in. When you’ve enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.