Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.