Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

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.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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.

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 have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

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.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

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

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 Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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

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

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

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

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.

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.

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?‘

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

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

There is spontaneity to my work.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

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.‘

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

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

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

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

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.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.