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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

– Srully Blotnick

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

– Srully D. Blotnick

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

– Milo Bloom

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

– James Goldsmith

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

– Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

– Robert Collier

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

– Samuel Goldwyn

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

– Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

– Plato

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.

– Author Unknown

The Holy Spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy Spirit, that same Spirit draws him to other Christians in the church. An individual Christian is not Christian at all.

– R. Brokhoff

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

– Unknown

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

– Unknown

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

– Blaine Lee

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

– Earl Wilson

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

– Charles Schwab

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

– Thomas Carlyle

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

– Richard Bach

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

– Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

– Dorothea Brande

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

– Stephen Nachmanovitch

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

– William Ellery Channing

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

– Margot Fonteyn

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

– Donald Kendall

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