Work Ethic Quotes

“Randomness rarely works for businesses.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“Leadership begins and ends with relationships”
― Andrew Wyatt, Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact

“When we’re constantly stuck in our screens, we’re missing out on what’s happening around us and within us.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“Tiger Woods said that he’s always nervous before a big tournament because if you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care. I’m still at least a little nervous before every set I do, even a ten-minute spot at a bar downtown for twenty-five people and zero money. Because I care very deeply about doing a set I’m proud of and that I stand behind.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“If you want more to do,” said Kim, “then do more. That’s the rule of thumb in any workplace.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“We don't have a blessing shortage, we have a capacity crisis.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“In modern society we often try to separate our personal and professional life. But this separation needs to be erased. People work better when they are accepted for who they are, living as a whole human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Talented people understand how important it is to be versatile and driven. They are resilient, have unparalleled focus, positive energy, determination, and are committed to forging ahead with emerging technologies and trends.”
― Germany Kent

“The man who had the best stock of health and the most faith and pluck, was the most wealthy, for we were all capitalists in those days. Each one expected to help himself, and as a rule all went to work with energy to open up the country and make homes for themselves, and at the same time they were ever ready to help each other in case of need or misfortune, and I will presume to say that if the people now possessed more of the spirit that then actuated the “old moss backs,” as some reproachfully style the old settlers, we would hear less about a conflict between labor and capital, which in truth is largely a conflict between labor and laziness. We had no eight hour, nor even ten hour days then, and I never heard of any one striking, not even an Indian”
― Arthur A. Denny, Pioneer Days on Puget Sound

“One of the greatest rewards of success is knowing that the hard-fought victory was earned.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“You'll encounter many obstacles on the road to success, don't allow yourself to be one of them.”
― Rob Liano

“The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.”
― William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“-she's gonna Malcolm Gladwell that shit-”
― Nikki Glaser

“Rewards are meaningless if they’re not deserved.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Some people complain about work like complaining is their job.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“When you work your tail off for something, it isn’t luck.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which the more one has, the less another can enjoy. Freedom considered as a matter of individual self-determination or self-sovereignty is reduced to a solipsistic phenomenon. Rather, as a world-building practice, freedom is a social--and hence necessarily political--endeavor.”
― Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

“Spend three months doing something and you’ll think you’ve been at it forever.”
― Alberto Madrigal, Un lavoro vero

“People get addicted to games and they usually don't get addicted to jobs. If jobs become like games, just imagine how much invested and try hard focused on winning people would become. Either it's a simulation or not - you are playing the game unless you are dead already. More success means playing the game better than others.”
― Thomas Vato

“Work reveals worth. Your work is an extension of you. Where your work is found is where your worth is defined”
― Benjamin Suulola

“But they produced nothing but talk and at that not very good talk. A few like Slab actually did what they professed; turned out a tangible product. But again, what? Cheese Danishes.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Nobody on their dying bed wished they had spent more time at the office or working but had time with the family and loved ones.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua, Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Putting in the time doesn’t cut it; getting the job done right is what counts.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Companies prefer to work with individuals who demonstrate initiative, are persevering, self-confident, and have proven people leadership skills.”
― Germany Kent

“There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“If you're not going to move, then the least you can do is give me a hand."
"Don't you have workers for that?" Once again, his voice belied his frustration with the dilemma he found himself in.
"Not all of us have an army of employees.”
― Jan Moran, The Chocolatier

“The best leaders have the ability to effectively communicate, engage, and influence across a full spectrum of different perspectives and personalities. ”
― Germany Kent

“Your bills don't take the day off.”
― Rob Liano

“I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I am determined.”
― Stacey Abrams