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- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing (1949 - ), tidligere amerikansk baseballspiller
- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), amerikansk fotballspiller og trener
- A society is great when men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in.
Gresk ordtak, ukjent opphav
- If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), tysk teoretisk fysiker og nobelprisvinner
- Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964 - ), spansk forfatter, manusforfatter og journalist
- Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Charles J. Sykes (1958 - ), amerikansk forsker, radiovert, journalist og forfatter
- I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.
Wally Wang, amerikansk forfatter og standup komiker
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), forfatteren bak “Ringeren av Notre Dame” og “Les Miserables”
- Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885), amerikansk general og USAs 18. President
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), USAs 16. President