Famous Quotations About Work

Here are some famous quotations about work. We have quotations made by Abraham Lincoln plus others.

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.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I'm not loafing. I work so fast I'm always finished.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Nothing can move a man who is paid by the hour; how sweet the flight of time seems to his calm mind.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world unite.

The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Work hard and save your money, and when you are old you be able to buy the things that only the young can enjoy.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

You can't help liking the boss - if you don't, he fires you.

A Random Quotation

You can find this one in the Famous Quotations about Failure category