Work

The body of every organization is structured from four kinds of bones. There are the wishbones, who spend all their time wishing someone would do the work. Then there are the jawbones, who do all the talking, but little else. The knucklebones knock every-thing anybody else tries to do. Fortunately, in every organization there are also the backbones, who get under the load and do most of the work.
-- Leo Aikman, On Bones

No shirt, no shoes, no paycheck ...
-- Gwen Barnes, Tech Writer, Mustang Software, Inc.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie

State of the art automation will never beat the wastebasket when it comes to speeding up efficiency in the office
-- Ann Landers

Dreams are the stuff that make life worth living. Give them up, and you give up all that truly matters. Write for yourself, not for recognition or success. If those fruits are to come, they will come. But the work itself must be the primary and major satisfaction.
-- William Heffernan

Form should always follow function (except in the Marketing Department).
-- Barry West, Tech. Writer, S2K

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

I can't stand the proliferation of paperwork. It's useless to fight the forms. You've got to kill the people producing them.
--Vladimir Kabaidze, General Director, Ivanova Machine Building Works, Moscow

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-- John Ruskin

Reading the manual is admitting defeat.
-- Unknown

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
-- Ulysses S. Grant

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.