Top 200 Quotes About Work (2024 Update)
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51. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

— Parkinson's law

52. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

— Henry Ford

53. “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

54. “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

55. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”

— Robert Strauss

56. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

— Anthony Volodkin

57. “Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

58. “Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.”

— Mike Krzyzewski

59. “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”

— Elon Musk

60. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

— Steve Jobs

61. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.”

— Mark Cuban

62. “Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.”

— J. R. D. Tata

63. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens

64. “Do nothing that is of no use.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

65. “Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

— Lao Tzu

66. “Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”

— Simon Sinek

67. “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

— Jim Rohn

68. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

— Abraham Lincoln

69. “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

— Warren Buffett

70. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

71. “If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.”

— Peter F. Drucker

72. “Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

— Stephen R. Covey

73. “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”

— W. Edwards Deming

74. “The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.”

— Eric Thomas

75. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

— Winston Churchill

76. “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”

— Warren Buffett

77. “When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

78. “It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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

— Thomas A. Edison

80. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

81. “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”

— Elon Musk

82. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”

— Bill Gates

83. “My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will be.”

— Richard Branson

84. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

— Jack Welch

85. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

— Anne Frank

86. “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

— Elon Musk

87. “The bridge between reality and a dream is work.”

— Jared Leto

88. “Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.”

— Brian Tracy

89. “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

90. “By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.”

— Ronald Reagan

91. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

— Stephen King

92. “Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”

— Mark Cuban

93. “You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

— Jim Rohn

94. “A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”

— Peter F. Drucker

95. “Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”

— Kent Beck

96. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

— John Ruskin

97. “To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.”

— Richard Branson

98. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

— Vince Lombardi

99. “Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”

— Og Mandino

100. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their growth.”

— John Whitmore