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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."

"I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient."
Explore more quotes by William Standish Knowles


"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."


"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."


"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."


"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."


"At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years."
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