It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is ladies and gentlemen. In this country you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
It's not the work which kills people it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic and that's not true because I only drink when I work and I'm a workaholic.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second telling other people to do so.
Lazy people tend not to take chances but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously but not themselves those who work hard and play hard.
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
People might not get all they work for in this world but they must certainly work for all they get.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah no I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.