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Quotations by Subject: Work
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!": Tina Fey, Bossypants, 2011
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.: Unknown
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.: Wilfred A. Peterson
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.: William Lyon Phelps

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