Work Quotes

"I have always maintained that there is honor in humble work done with pride."

"I learned that the most profitable thing you can do is make your customers feel valued."

"I have devoted my life to proving that steam power could be harnessed for the benefit of all mankind."

"Work ennobles the soul when pursued with integrity."

"The most important thing is not merely to exist, but to create something of lasting value through our labour."

"Great works are not born from inspiration alone, but from the marriage of inspiration and perspiration."

"A merchant who doesn't advertise is like a lighthouse keeper who hides his light."

"The best investment a merchant can make is in his employees."

"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."

"The noblest work of man is done for wages."

"No man can be a real success if he does not love his work."

"I have made it my practice to buy my own goods in preference to ordering them."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."

"Waste in industry is synonymous with waste of human effort."

"You cannot have a quality product or service unless every person involved in the creation is given the opportunity to do their best."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"Hard work never killed anybody who surveyed their work carefully."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"The industrial soul of America is made up of the workingman."

"The real reason for the decline in quality is that mankind is unwilling to work."

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whatever its kind."

"The great works of the world have not been performed by men who were always looking for an opportunity of going home to dinner."

"I have no time for men who sit around waiting for opportunities to come to them."

"I have never regretted working too hard, only not working hard enough."

"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed."

"A man is not paid for the hour. He is paid for what he brings to the hour."

"Let your work speak louder than your words ever could."

"The most valuable investment is always in yourself."

"In the garden of opportunity, only those who plant seeds reap harvests."