Work Quotes

"Work dignifies the human spirit and provides meaning."

"It is the failures of existing rules that create the puzzles for extraordinary science."

"Scientists will accept a new paradigm only after it has solved the problems that created the crisis."

"Each paradigm brings new puzzles and new rules for solving them."

"The scientist is not free to choose which paradigm he will follow without good reason."

"Normal science is problem-solving within an accepted paradigm."

"The scientist cannot abandon his paradigm without abandoning his profession."

"Practical people are the most idealistic of all."

"Success for corporations is measured in profit; success for people should be measured in dignity."

"Work becomes meaningful when connected to larger human purposes."

"Social institutions cannot be reformed unless we first understand what problems they are meant to solve."

"The businessman is the target of a greater hostility than perhaps any other group in American society."

"You cannot have a rise in the standard of living without an increase in capital investment per capita."

"The real determinant of wages is the productivity of labor, not the demands of labor unions."

"The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market. Expand the market and you expand civilization."

"Poverty is the natural state of mankind. Prosperity must be created through work and saving."

"The businessman who serves the consumer best will succeed, regardless of government favor."

"I work not primarily for the money or success, but because the work is intrinsically interesting."

"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."

"The economic system requires men to work themselves to exhaustion."

"The practice of collective bargaining is one of the most important institutions of modern society."

"Culture is not something we have; it is something we do."

"The normal scientist is engaged in puzzle-solving within the framework of an accepted paradigm."

"The puzzle-solver in normal science is engaged in work that is cumulative but not progressive."

"We need to make a much greater effort to explain how the market economy works."

"Work is the nobility of man."

"Work is not something to escape, but something through which to express our nature."

"Work becomes meaningful when it serves purposes beyond ourselves."

"Work becomes meaningful when it connects to something beyond itself."

"I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal."