Work Quotes

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

~ Eddie Huang

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

~ Jeff Bezos

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

~ Walt Disney

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

~ Meat Loaf

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

~ Michael Jackson

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

~ Sylvia Plath

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

~ Mitt Romney

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

~ Blaine Lee

What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

~ Keith David

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

~ Ernie Banks

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

~ Kristen Bell

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

~ Dolly Parton

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

~ Mark Cuban

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.

~ Bob Iger

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

~ Robert Orben

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

~ Harold S. Geneen

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

~ David Geffen

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

~ Tony Shalhoub

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

~ John Boyle O'reilly

I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure.

~ Charlotte Mckinney

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.

~ Christie Brinkley

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

~ Kurt Cobain

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

~ Michael Jordan

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

~ Joan Lunden

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

~ Stephen Covey

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

~ Earl Nightingale

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

~ Dylan Taylor

From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

~ Kaja Foglio

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

~ Patrick Swayze

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

~ Will Self

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

~ Shelley Long

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

~ Dean Cain

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

~ Bram Cohen

If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.

~ James Marsden

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.

~ Timothy F. Cahill

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

~ Hamdi Ulukaya

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

~ S. Truett Cathy

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

~ Joyce Meyer

Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.

~ Howard Jacobson