Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

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"A great company culture is built on trust."
Reed Hastings
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"The best companies are built by people who care deeply."
Reed Hastings
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"We should focus on what we do best."
Reed Hastings
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"The best employees are those who are passionate about the mission."
Reed Hastings
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"Great culture is about shared values and a shared mission."
Reed Hastings
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"The most important metric is customer satisfaction."
Reed Hastings
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"We believe that work should be meaningful."
Reed Hastings
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"Great companies are built on great culture."
Reed Hastings
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"I never wanted to be a businessman; I wanted to be an engineer."
Steve Wozniak
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"I never wanted to work in corporate America; I wanted to build something real."
Steve Wozniak
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"Work that aligns with your values never feels like work."
Steve Wozniak
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"Innovation thrives in constraint; it dies in entitlement."
Gordon Moore
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"The love of work is what separates a career from a job."
Gordon Moore
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"Work that doesn't grow you is time you're not spending."
Gordon Moore
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Tim Cook
"You have to have passion for what you do."
Tim Cook
"One more thing - you need to love what you do."
Tim Cook
"Work should fulfill you."
Tim Cook
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"Work that harms the Earth is not honest work; it is theft from the future."
Sunita Narain
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"Work that builds the future is work worth doing."
Sunita Narain
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"The goal of software development should be to serve users, not to control them."
Richard Stallman
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"The business model of selling software by restricting users' freedom is fundamentally flawed."
Richard Stallman
"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
Linus Torvalds
"I love my job. I get to work with brilliant people and solve interesting problems."
Linus Torvalds
"I'm not interested in making money. I just want to have interesting problems to solve."
Linus Torvalds
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"The key to building great teams is hiring people who challenge you."
Reed Hastings
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"Don't hire people who are smarter than you on some dimension. Hire people who are smarter than you on many dimensions."
Reed Hastings
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"Passion is overrated. Discipline is underrated."
Reed Hastings
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"People are more productive when they have flexibility and trust."
Reed Hastings
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"Hire for attitude, train for skill. You can't teach someone to care."
Reed Hastings