Work Quotes

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

~ Richard Branson

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

~ Craig Bruce

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

~ John Harvey Kellogg

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

~ Ricardo Semler

I don't think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that's where the problem is.

~ Virat Kohli

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

~ Angelina Jolie

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

~ John Dos Passos

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

~ Jenny Mccarthy

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

~ Richard Pryor

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

~ Joe Rogan

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

~ Paris Hilton

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

~ Judd Nelson

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

~ Lukas Foss

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

~ George Lucas

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

~ Kathy Reichs

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

~ Julia Gillard

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

~ William Masters

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

~ Alphonso Jackson

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

~ Pierre Bourdieu

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

~ Freeman A. Hrabowski Iii

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

~ Peter Greenaway

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

~ Ellen G. White

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

~ Pierre Bourdieu

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

~ Will Rogers

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

~ John Ruskin

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

~ Timothy Thomas Fortune

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

~ Lou Gehrig

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

~ Adam Davidson

Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.

~ Robert Kennedy

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

~ Wendy Kopp

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

~ Ellen Key

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

~ Eric Bana

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

~ Howard Schultz

Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.

~ Andie Macdowell

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

~ Sandra Bullock

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

~ John Madden

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

~ Leonard Susskind

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.

~ Willie Geist