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And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
Paul Ryan

Morning, Saying, Thinking

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Peace, Find, Else

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Leigh Steinberg

Amazing, Changes, Open

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Hard, Understand, Paid

I'm working myself to death.
Alan Ladd

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Gloria Steinem

Women, Care, May

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
Byron Dorgan

Smart, Hard, Different

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering

Job, Him, Trying

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine

Treat, Office, Software

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Time, Completion, Available

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
James Cash Penney

Teacher, Greatest, Job

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson

Dreams, Good, Science

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

Men, Live, Forget

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

Alone, Talent, Genius

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card

Getting, Capitalism, Garden

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
Walter Gilbert

Change, Around, Changes

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
Walter Wager

Job, Woman, American

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Alone, Long, Bored

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change, Freedom, Struggle

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

Wisdom, Give, Through

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

Stupid, Hard, Born

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Motivational, Power, Whatever

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

Hope, Love, Great

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

Dreams, Reality, Hard

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Job, Living

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