Quotes of: Working-classes Keyword

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Ricardo Semler

I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

Salli Richardson

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

Justin Theroux

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

Randy Schekman

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Grace Hightower

Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

Glen Hirshberg

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Colin Firth

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Elon Musk

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Arthur Miller

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty

Life

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

Warren Farrell

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

Alex Gibney

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

Dick Wolf

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Elvis Costello

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

Frank Lampard

It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.

Ivan Lendl

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Jesse Helms

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

Jonathan Nolan

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Judith Rossner