"If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important."
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"Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work.""
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"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."
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"No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being."
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"Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation."
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"Without work all life goes rotten."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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"Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial."
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"Wherever work is done, victory is attained."
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"Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now."
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"I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting."
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"To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father."
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
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"The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management."
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"I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought."
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"Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago."
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"He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?"
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"We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up."
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"I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again."
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"I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal."
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