The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius

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.
Steve Jobs

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
Jack LaLanne

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen