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The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.
- Jason Fried
God gave him a work to do. He commissioned him to be a watchman on the walls.
- David Jeremiah
He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...
- Edith Wharton
The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
- Edward Welch
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am not crazy about bags or watches. For me, anywhere I go for a holiday or for work, the first thing that I go and buy are shoes.
- Jennifer Winget
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- Samuel Johnson
The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
- Erwin McManus
I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.
- Tina Smith
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
- Andrew Jackson
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
- Maria Edgeworth
I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
- Linford Christie