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Work Quotes
"Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think."
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"An employer's fart is music to his employees' ears."
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"Break free from the contract of employment."
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"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."
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"For sixteen years, I had a spectacular real estate career in Tallahassee, Florida. I loved receiving telephone inquiries and making cold calls. I knew that if I could meet people on the phone, I could usually turn them into buyers."
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"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes."
Work,
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"Employment leaves you bare and empty."
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"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place."
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"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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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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"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
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"Employment will fail you someday."
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"12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more."
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"Speaking about work isn't working."
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"Your life content reduces with employment."
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"It is good to work for your living."
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"Whatever work you do in this world; the work itself has no value. If there is attachment-abhorrence behind that work, then only you are responsible for the next life. You are not responsible if attachment-abhorrence don't occur."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
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"Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty."
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"Self-employment killed the weekend."
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"Every work you do should be done unto the Lord and your love to God must show in the quality of your product."
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"When employees are motivated and love what they do you will see higher productivity, less turnover, healthier communication, increased loyalty, and a happier environment."
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"Most employees don't really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours."
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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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"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."
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"When you are fully present and engaged in your workplace, you will demonstrate that you care about the success of your organization, are a team player, have a can-do attitude, and will go the extra mile to fulfill and exceed expectations."
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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."
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"A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee's pit of debt."
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"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one's clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday."
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"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."
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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."
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