Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

I will never retire unless I have to.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

I like to work.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.