Work quotes

“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.” Warren Buffett

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.” George Carlin

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” George Carlin

“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.” George Carlin

“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.” George Carlin

“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.” Ernest Hemingway

“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.” Jim Morrison

“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.” Edward Hopper

“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.” Mick Jagger

“Truth is what works.” William James

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” William James

“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.” William James

“You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.” Kim Kardashian

“If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.” Kim Kardashian

“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.” Kim Kardashian

“I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me” Kim Kardashian

“I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.” Kim Kardashian

“I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.” Kim Kardashian

“I'm the true definition of a workaholic.” Kim Kardashian

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

“You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.” Stephen King

“But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?” Stephen King

“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.” Stephen King

“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.” Rush Limbaugh

“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.” Rush Limbaugh

“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?” Rush Limbaugh

“How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?” Rush Limbaugh