Work Quotes

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use email and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the emails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

Nuclear fission. Here's the one-sentence case for nuclear power: It's the only carbon-free energy source that can reliably deliver power day and night, through every season, almost anywhere on earth, that has been proven to work on a large scale.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I never did a day's work in my life. it was all fun.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Work while others are wishing.

I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.