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Sam Ewing

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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

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"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."

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

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

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"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."

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

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"Employee Engagement"Employee Engagement has become a very hot topic in recent years. The escalating statistics for disengagement are alarming. In 2015, the Gallup Polls' "The State of the American Workforce survey found that only 32.5 percent of the U.S. Workforce is engaged and committed where they work, and 54 percent say they would consider leaving their companies if they could receive a 20 percent raise elsewhere. Disengagement not only lowers performance, morale, and productivity, but it's costing employers billions of dollars a year. It's a growing problem, which has many companies baffled."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"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."

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