"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

"Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen."

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

"I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat."

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices"

"You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance."

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."

"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

"Mastering your fear means accepting it, owning it, and making it work for you instead of against you."

"Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism"

"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."

"When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working."

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark."

"When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose."

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation"

"People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence."

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.