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For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

God always strives together with those who strive.

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

Good workmen are seldom rich.

Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.