"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

Work, Appearance, Fool, World

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Work, Challenge, Capability, Opportunity

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Regret

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Life, Purpose, Survival

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Mind, Focus

"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Work, Truth, Labor, Life

"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Work, People

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Money, Career, Behavior, Motivational

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"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

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"Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you."

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"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."

Happiness

"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."

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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

Success

"Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

Being

"If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

"I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it."

"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

Explore more quotes by Michael Korda

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you."

"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."

"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."

"The more you can dream, the more you can do."

"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

"If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."