Top 200 Friday Quotes for Work (2025 Update)
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151. “Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

152. “It takes a team to do anything of lasting value.”

— John C. Maxwell

153. “Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.”

— John C. Maxwell

154. “Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

155. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

156. “Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”

— David Ogilvy

157. “People imitate their leader. Lead by example.”

— Barbara Corcoran

158. “Great leaders don’t blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.”

— Simon Sinek

159. “The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”

— Roy H. Williams

160. “If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.”

— Sallie Krawcheck

161. “Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”

— David O. McKay

162. “The object of living is work, experience, happiness.”

— Henry Ford

163. “The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.”

— Henry Ford II

164. “It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing.”

— Mark Cuban

165. “Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

166. “Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”

— Lou Holtz

167. “People are entitled to joy in work.”

— W. Edwards Deming

168. “Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.”

— Lee Iacocca

169. “Until my ONE Thing is done – everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary Keller

170. “Plan your work – work your plan.”

— B.C. Forbes

171. “Hard work and honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.”

— Charlie Munger

172. “Hire attitude, train skills.”

— Tom Peters

173. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”

— Henri Matisse

174. “The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

175. “Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.”

— Mary Kay Ash

176. “Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.”

— Ron Conway

177. “Hard work always wins in the end.”

— Lucas Till

178. “Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.”

— Richard Branson

179. “If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

180. “Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.”

— Tim S. Grover

181. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.”

— Simon Sinek

182. “Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.”

— Tom Peters

183. “All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

184. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

185. “Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

186. “Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.”

— John C. Maxwell

187. “Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?”

— Vince Lombardi

188. “When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.”

— Germany Kent

189. “Results are the name of the game...”

— Jim Rohn

190. “There’s no experience like on-the-job training.”

— Hank Azaria

191. “The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.”

— Pat Riley

192. “Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.”

— Richard Branson

193. “If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won’t require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.”

— Stephen R. Covey

194. “Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.”

— Marcus Buckingham

195. “Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.”

— Ben Carson

196. “Trust is a good business practice.”

— Jim Blasingame

197. “Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.”

— Teresa Amabile

198. “Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.”

— W. Edwards Deming

199. “Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.”

— Richard Branson

200. “Good design is good business.”

— Thomas Watson, Jr.