Miscellaneous Occupations

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A cluttered desk is a sign of genius. A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.

And will you succeed? You will indeed (98 and 3/4's percent guaranteed!)
~  Dr. Seuss

Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down.
~ Jimmy Durante

The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.
A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.  ~ Russell H. Ewing

Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of it.
~ Vince Lombardi

Diplomacy: the art of letting someone do it your way.

Diplomacy: the art of letting someone think that your idea is really their idea.

Do not follow where the path may lead,
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail behind you.
~  Raulph Waldow Emerson

Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
~ H. Jackson Browne

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. ~ Katherine Whitehorn

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

The highest reward for a persons' toil is not what she gets for it,
but rather what she becomes by it.

I have come to the conclusion that almost no one on earth is lazy. The truth is that the man you call lazy just doesn't want to do your kind of work; he wants to do his kind.
~ Bertha Damon

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
~ Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician)

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
~  Mary Pickford  (1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress)

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. ~ Brian Dyson - Coca Cola CEO

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ~ Upton Sinclair

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. ~  Martin Van Buren

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.
~ Marysarah Quinn,

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. ~  David O. McKay

The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves. ~ Garth Henrichs

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. ~ George Halas

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

Opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognise them.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~  John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA)

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"
~ E.M. Kelly

Some people are so busy making a living they don't have time to make a life.

Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last. 
~ Scott Michael Durski

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
~ Thomas Carlyle

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
~ William J. Bennett

There is no labour a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
~  Bill Cosby

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
~  Jack Bergman

There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
~ Vince Lombardi

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
~ Eugene V. Debs

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. 
~ Barbara Walters

What you are will show in what you do.
~ Thomas Edison (1847-1931, American Inventor and Founder of GE)

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
~ William Arthur Ward

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
  ~ Betty Bender

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when what you are doing serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within, but seek the sweetest satisfaction of your life and work, then you know that you are doing what you are meant to be doing.
~ Gary Zukov

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
~ R. H. Grant

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.
~  Sidney A. Friedman (1935- , American Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Author)

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
~ Billy Wilder (1906-2002, American Film Director)