“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“Give me a man who sings at his work.”

“When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful gar...”

“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”

“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”

“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”

“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”

“Labor conquers all things.”