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“When you like your work, every day is a holiday.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
“Doctor Lillian Gilbreth, professor of management at Purdue University, studied women in a dress factory. Some of them were limp with fatigue; some bright-eyed and wide awake. Yet all the women had been working the same number of hours. Doctor Gilbreth found that most of the wide-awake ones had plans for the evening - a party or a date - and were anticipating a good time. The tired ones were those who had nothing to look forward to.” -Amy Selwyn: as quoted in “Coronet” magazine
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“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 - 1973))
Overheard: At the end of the work day, we tell all of our employees, “You’re fired. Come back tomorrow morning, and we’ll re-hire you.”
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Overheard: I like my job so much that I actually pay my employer for the privilege of working there.
Let us realize that:
the privilege to work is a gift,
the power to work is a blessing,
the love of work is success!
-David O. McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))
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“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.” -Jean Giraudoux (Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944))
Boss: The person who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
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“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.” -Colleen C. Barrett (born 1944)
“Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the professional school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.” -M. C. McIntosh
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“It doesn’t matter whose payroll you are on, you are working for yourself.” -Author Unknown
“Doctor Lillian Gilbreth, professor of management at Purdue University, studied women in a dress factory. Some of them were limp with fatigue; some bright-eyed and wide awake. Yet all the women had been working the same number of hours. Doctor Gilbreth found that most of the wide-awake ones had plans for the evening - a party or a date - and were anticipating a good time. The tired ones were those who had nothing to look forward to.” -Amy Selwyn: as quoted in “Coronet” magazine
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“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 - 1973))
Overheard: At the end of the work day, we tell all of our employees, “You’re fired. Come back tomorrow morning, and we’ll re-hire you.”
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Overheard: I like my job so much that I actually pay my employer for the privilege of working there.
Let us realize that:
the privilege to work is a gift,
the power to work is a blessing,
the love of work is success!
-David O. McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))
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“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.” -Jean Giraudoux (Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944))
Boss: The person who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
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“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.” -Colleen C. Barrett (born 1944)
“Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the professional school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.” -M. C. McIntosh
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“It doesn’t matter whose payroll you are on, you are working for yourself.” -Author Unknown
One manager let employees know how valuable they are with the following memo:
You Arx A Kxy Pxrson
Xvxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works vxry wxll - xxcxpt for onx kxy. You would think that with all thx othxer kxys functioning propxrly, onx kxy not working would hardly bx noticxd; but just onx kxy out of whack sxxms to ruin thx wholx xffort.
You may say to yoursxlf - Wxll, I’m only onx pxrson. No onx will noticx if I don’t do my bxst. But it doxs makx a diffxrxncx, bxcausx an xffxctivx organization nxxds activx participation by xvxry onx to thx bxst of his or hxr ability.
So, thx nxxt timx you think you arx not important, rxmxmbxr my old typxwritxr. You arx a kxy pxrson.
By Thx Boss
You Arx A Kxy Pxrson
Xvxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works vxry wxll - xxcxpt for onx kxy. You would think that with all thx othxer kxys functioning propxrly, onx kxy not working would hardly bx noticxd; but just onx kxy out of whack sxxms to ruin thx wholx xffort.
You may say to yoursxlf - Wxll, I’m only onx pxrson. No onx will noticx if I don’t do my bxst. But it doxs makx a diffxrxncx, bxcausx an xffxctivx organization nxxds activx participation by xvxry onx to thx bxst of his or hxr ability.
So, thx nxxt timx you think you arx not important, rxmxmbxr my old typxwritxr. You arx a kxy pxrson.
By Thx Boss
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 - 1838): “Romance and Reality” (1831), Volume II, page 108
“The highest reward from your working is not what you get for it but what you become by it.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986))
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“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): “Candide, ou l’Optimisme” (1759), Chapter 30, ‘Conclusion’
The following was found in an employee handbook: “Be thankful for your problems, because if they were less difficult, someone with less ability and lower pay would have your job.”
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The Fable Of The Crow And The Rabbit
A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?” The crow answered: “Sure, why not.” So, the rabbit sat on the ground under the tree, and took his leisure. Suddenly, a fox appeared, pounced on the rabbit, and ate it. The moral of the story is, to be able to lounge around and do nothing all day, you must be sitting very, very high up.
By Author Unknown
“The highest reward from your working is not what you get for it but what you become by it.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986))
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“Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): “Candide, ou l’Optimisme” (1759), Chapter 30, ‘Conclusion’
The following was found in an employee handbook: “Be thankful for your problems, because if they were less difficult, someone with less ability and lower pay would have your job.”
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The Fable Of The Crow And The Rabbit
A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?” The crow answered: “Sure, why not.” So, the rabbit sat on the ground under the tree, and took his leisure. Suddenly, a fox appeared, pounced on the rabbit, and ate it. The moral of the story is, to be able to lounge around and do nothing all day, you must be sitting very, very high up.
By Author Unknown
On the morning of the last day of school, Johnny’s mother went into his bedroom and hollered, “Wake up and get ready for school!” Johnny pulled the sheets up over his face and muttered, “Give me one good reason why I should go to school today.” His mother answered, “Well, for starters, you are the school principal.”
A guy showed up late for work. The boss yelled, “You should’ve been here at 8:30!” The guy replied, “Why? What happened at 8:30?”
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.” -William Bennett (William John Bennett (born 1943))
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“I have to take my paycheck to the bank. It’s too little to go by itself.” -Author Unknown
Workplace Rules
1. The boss is always right.
2. When the boss is wrong, refer to Rule 1.
By Author Unknown
Overheard: I was thinking that with a few more deductions, my take-home pay wouldn’t be enough to get me there. Then, it finally happened - the deductions and withholdings have now exceeded my earnings, and last week, the company didn’t send me a pay check, they sent me a bill!
“Now, before I agree to take this job,” the young applicant said, “I have one question. Are the hours long?” “Well,” the manager said, “we try our best to keep them limited to sixty minutes.”
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“Don’t let your superiors know that you are better than they are.” -Arthur Bloch (born 1948)
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): address at Edinburgh (1866)
“Variety may be the spice of life, but monotony provides the groceries.” -Author Unknown
“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.” -Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 - 1957)): “Are Women Human?” (1938); type of work: address given to a women’s society
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The boss joined a group of workers in a meeting and told some jokes he’d heard recently. Everybody laughed loudly. Everybody, that is, except Bonnie. When the boss noticed that he was getting no reaction from Bonnie, he said, “What’s the matter, Bonnie? No sense of humor?” “My sense of humor is fine,” she said. “But I don’t have to laugh. I’m starting a job with another company tomorrow.”
“Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before important meetings.” -Scott Adams (Scott Raymond Adams (born 1957))
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“A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950): “An Unsocial Socialist” (1887), Chapter V
“What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
Employee Breakroom Notice: Your Mother Does Not Work Here, So You Will Have To Clean Up Your Own Messes.
Employee: Sir, I’ve been with you for twenty-seven years, and I’ve never before asked for a raise.
Boss: That’s why you’ve been with me for twenty-seven years.
“Give sail to ability.” -Author Unknown: Japanese proverb
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A man said to his wife, “I don’t want to go to work today. It’s a jungle out there.” She said, “Don’t worry, I put a banana in your lunchbox.”
A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom, and said, “Your first job will be to sweep out the store.” “But I’m a college graduate,” the young man replied indignantly. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that,” said the manager. “Here, give me the broom - I’ll show you how.”
Personnel Director, speaking to new trainee: “. . . or, if you prefer, you can elect to skip coffee breaks entirely, and retire three years sooner.”
The first United States Minimum Wage Law was instituted in 1938. The minimum wage was set at 25 cents per hour.
So, you are thinking of becoming a comedian, musician, artist, song writer, actor, inventor, poet . . . these are interesting ‘sidelines,’ but as they say, “Don’t quit your day job,” because you will need a means to support yourself while you pursue your creative ideas, and that means having a ‘real job’ with a real income that pays the rent and puts food on the table during the years it will take for you to develop a talent and years it will take for you to be discovered. Yes, you should definitely pursue your dreams - while continuing to work at the job that provides you with an income.
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“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
Desk: A waste-paper basket with drawers.
“We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?” -Richard Branson (Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 1950)), as quoted in the “New York Times” (18 February 1993) newspaper
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“Don’t bother to boast of your work to others; good work speaks for itself.” -Author Unknown
“If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him - speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II (1882 - 1970), editor: “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard” (1928), pages 59 and 60, ‘Get Out or Get in Line’
A guy showed up late for work. The boss yelled, “You should’ve been here at 8:30!” The guy replied, “Why? What happened at 8:30?”
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.” -William Bennett (William John Bennett (born 1943))
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“I have to take my paycheck to the bank. It’s too little to go by itself.” -Author Unknown
Workplace Rules
1. The boss is always right.
2. When the boss is wrong, refer to Rule 1.
By Author Unknown
Overheard: I was thinking that with a few more deductions, my take-home pay wouldn’t be enough to get me there. Then, it finally happened - the deductions and withholdings have now exceeded my earnings, and last week, the company didn’t send me a pay check, they sent me a bill!
“Now, before I agree to take this job,” the young applicant said, “I have one question. Are the hours long?” “Well,” the manager said, “we try our best to keep them limited to sixty minutes.”
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“Don’t let your superiors know that you are better than they are.” -Arthur Bloch (born 1948)
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): address at Edinburgh (1866)
“Variety may be the spice of life, but monotony provides the groceries.” -Author Unknown
“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.” -Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 - 1957)): “Are Women Human?” (1938); type of work: address given to a women’s society
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The boss joined a group of workers in a meeting and told some jokes he’d heard recently. Everybody laughed loudly. Everybody, that is, except Bonnie. When the boss noticed that he was getting no reaction from Bonnie, he said, “What’s the matter, Bonnie? No sense of humor?” “My sense of humor is fine,” she said. “But I don’t have to laugh. I’m starting a job with another company tomorrow.”
“Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before important meetings.” -Scott Adams (Scott Raymond Adams (born 1957))
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“A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950): “An Unsocial Socialist” (1887), Chapter V
“What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
Employee Breakroom Notice: Your Mother Does Not Work Here, So You Will Have To Clean Up Your Own Messes.
Employee: Sir, I’ve been with you for twenty-seven years, and I’ve never before asked for a raise.
Boss: That’s why you’ve been with me for twenty-seven years.
“Give sail to ability.” -Author Unknown: Japanese proverb
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A man said to his wife, “I don’t want to go to work today. It’s a jungle out there.” She said, “Don’t worry, I put a banana in your lunchbox.”
A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom, and said, “Your first job will be to sweep out the store.” “But I’m a college graduate,” the young man replied indignantly. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that,” said the manager. “Here, give me the broom - I’ll show you how.”
Personnel Director, speaking to new trainee: “. . . or, if you prefer, you can elect to skip coffee breaks entirely, and retire three years sooner.”
The first United States Minimum Wage Law was instituted in 1938. The minimum wage was set at 25 cents per hour.
So, you are thinking of becoming a comedian, musician, artist, song writer, actor, inventor, poet . . . these are interesting ‘sidelines,’ but as they say, “Don’t quit your day job,” because you will need a means to support yourself while you pursue your creative ideas, and that means having a ‘real job’ with a real income that pays the rent and puts food on the table during the years it will take for you to develop a talent and years it will take for you to be discovered. Yes, you should definitely pursue your dreams - while continuing to work at the job that provides you with an income.
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“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
Desk: A waste-paper basket with drawers.
“We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?” -Richard Branson (Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 1950)), as quoted in the “New York Times” (18 February 1993) newspaper
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“Don’t bother to boast of your work to others; good work speaks for itself.” -Author Unknown
“If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him - speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II (1882 - 1970), editor: “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard” (1928), pages 59 and 60, ‘Get Out or Get in Line’
“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” -James Goldsmith (1933 - 1997)
“. . . a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.” -Author Unknown: as quoted by Alpheus Cary in a speech (7 October 1824) at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
“I have to take my paycheck to the bank. It’s too little to go by itself.” -Bob Thaves: “Frank and Ernest” (comic strip)
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Worker’s Prayer
Now I get me up to work,
I pray, the Lord, I may not shirk.
If I should die before tonight,
I pray, the Lord, my work’s all right.
By Author Unknown
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“Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.” -Robert E. Schenk
“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.” [translation to English]
“Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.” [original Latin]
-Jerome of Stridon (also known simply as Jerome or by his full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (about C.E. 342 to 347 - C.E. 420))
“Making a living is best undertaken as a part of the more important business of making a life.” -Author Unknown
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“Doing a job right the first time gets the job done.” -Author Unknown
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” [translation to English]
“Il faut travailler, sinon par goût, au moins par désespoir, puisque, tout bien vérifié, travailler est moins ennuyeux que s’amuser.” [original French]
-Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)): “Mon coeur mis à nu” (1864)
“Keep your eye on the ball, your shoulder to the wheel, and your ear to the ground - now try to work in that position.” -Author Unknown
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“A ‘people churner’ is a bad employee who causes a company to lose all of its good employees. Some companies have a gang, or a group of people churners, that work together to cause good employees to flee the company to find work elsewhere. What eventually happens to a company that loses all of its good employees?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” -James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
Jack
All work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy;
All play and no work
makes Jack a mere toy.
By Author Unknown
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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” -Peter Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))
“Work is more fun than fun.” -Noël Coward (1899 - 1973)
Boss to new employee: Amazing - you’ve been with us only two days and already you’re a month behind.
“Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“Work offers us the opportunity to discover who we are and what we can do.” -Author Unknown
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“Work is the basis of living. I’ll never retire. A man’ll rust out quicker than he’ll wear out.” -Harland Sanders (Harland David ‘Colonel’ Sanders (1890 - 1980))
Overheard: When I asked for a work break, my supervisor said, “You don’t need a break. We gave you one when we hired you.”
“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.” -George S. Clason: “The Richest Man in Babylon” (1930)
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“As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: A liking for work.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” -Warren Beatty (Henry Warren Beatty (born Henry Warren Beaty in 1937))
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“The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))
“By 1960, work will be limited to three hours a day.” -John Langdon-Davies (1897 - 1971)
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“The most important question to ask on the job is not, “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is, ‘What am I becoming?’” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)): “Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine” (11 February 2003)
“Be a friendly person to your co-workers. Say nice things to them. Help them when they least expect it.” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
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“If you do a good job and work hard, you may get a job with a better company someday.” -Author Unknown
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this Universe.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Address at Edinburgh” (2 April 1866)
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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), Book III, chapter 11
“Find something in life you can give the best of yourself to.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“. . . a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.” -Author Unknown: as quoted by Alpheus Cary in a speech (7 October 1824) at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
“I have to take my paycheck to the bank. It’s too little to go by itself.” -Bob Thaves: “Frank and Ernest” (comic strip)
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Worker’s Prayer
Now I get me up to work,
I pray, the Lord, I may not shirk.
If I should die before tonight,
I pray, the Lord, my work’s all right.
By Author Unknown
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“Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.” -Robert E. Schenk
“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.” [translation to English]
“Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.” [original Latin]
-Jerome of Stridon (also known simply as Jerome or by his full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (about C.E. 342 to 347 - C.E. 420))
“Making a living is best undertaken as a part of the more important business of making a life.” -Author Unknown
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“Doing a job right the first time gets the job done.” -Author Unknown
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” [translation to English]
“Il faut travailler, sinon par goût, au moins par désespoir, puisque, tout bien vérifié, travailler est moins ennuyeux que s’amuser.” [original French]
-Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)): “Mon coeur mis à nu” (1864)
“Keep your eye on the ball, your shoulder to the wheel, and your ear to the ground - now try to work in that position.” -Author Unknown
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“A ‘people churner’ is a bad employee who causes a company to lose all of its good employees. Some companies have a gang, or a group of people churners, that work together to cause good employees to flee the company to find work elsewhere. What eventually happens to a company that loses all of its good employees?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” -James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
Jack
All work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy;
All play and no work
makes Jack a mere toy.
By Author Unknown
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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” -Peter Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))
“Work is more fun than fun.” -Noël Coward (1899 - 1973)
Boss to new employee: Amazing - you’ve been with us only two days and already you’re a month behind.
“Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“Work offers us the opportunity to discover who we are and what we can do.” -Author Unknown
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“Work is the basis of living. I’ll never retire. A man’ll rust out quicker than he’ll wear out.” -Harland Sanders (Harland David ‘Colonel’ Sanders (1890 - 1980))
Overheard: When I asked for a work break, my supervisor said, “You don’t need a break. We gave you one when we hired you.”
“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.” -George S. Clason: “The Richest Man in Babylon” (1930)
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“As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: A liking for work.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” -Warren Beatty (Henry Warren Beatty (born Henry Warren Beaty in 1937))
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“The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans (1819 - 1880))
“By 1960, work will be limited to three hours a day.” -John Langdon-Davies (1897 - 1971)
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“The most important question to ask on the job is not, “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is, ‘What am I becoming?’” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)): “Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine” (11 February 2003)
“Be a friendly person to your co-workers. Say nice things to them. Help them when they least expect it.” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
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“If you do a good job and work hard, you may get a job with a better company someday.” -Author Unknown
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this Universe.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Address at Edinburgh” (2 April 1866)
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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), Book III, chapter 11
“Find something in life you can give the best of yourself to.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Work
Let me but do my work from day to day,
In field or forest, at the desk or loom,
In roaring market-place or tranquil room;
Let me but find it in my heart to say,
When vagrant wishes beckon me astray,
“This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;
“Of all who live, I am the one by whom
“This work can best be done in the right way.”
Then shall I see it not too great, nor small,
To suit my spirit and to prove my powers;
Then shall I cheerful greet the laboring hours,
And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall
At eventide, to play and love and rest,
Because I know for me my work is best.
By Henry van Dyke: “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke” (1933)
Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a Presbyterian minister, an educator, a short story writer, a poet, and an essayist. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 10 April 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
Let me but do my work from day to day,
In field or forest, at the desk or loom,
In roaring market-place or tranquil room;
Let me but find it in my heart to say,
When vagrant wishes beckon me astray,
“This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;
“Of all who live, I am the one by whom
“This work can best be done in the right way.”
Then shall I see it not too great, nor small,
To suit my spirit and to prove my powers;
Then shall I cheerful greet the laboring hours,
And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall
At eventide, to play and love and rest,
Because I know for me my work is best.
By Henry van Dyke: “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke” (1933)
Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a Presbyterian minister, an educator, a short story writer, a poet, and an essayist. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 10 April 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
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Words Of Thomas Dekker
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face;
To greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains;
To approach my work with a clean mind;
To hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things,
The Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working;
To meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart;
To be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours;
To approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep,
And the joy that comes from work well done -
This is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
By Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker was born in about 1572 in London, England. He became a playwright and a pamphleteer. Thomas Dekker passed on at about 60 years of age on 25 August 1632 in London, England.
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face;
To greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains;
To approach my work with a clean mind;
To hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things,
The Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working;
To meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart;
To be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours;
To approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep,
And the joy that comes from work well done -
This is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
By Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker was born in about 1572 in London, England. He became a playwright and a pamphleteer. Thomas Dekker passed on at about 60 years of age on 25 August 1632 in London, England.
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The Hard-Work Plan
From the lowest depths of poverty
To the highest heights of fame,
From obscureness of position
To a bright and shining name,
From the mass of human beings
Who compose the common clan,
You can earn your way to greatness
By the Hard-Work Plan.
’Twas the key to Lincoln’s progress,
’Twas the route to Webster’s fame;
And Garfield by this method
To distinction laid his claim;
And all earth’s noblest heroes,
Since this old world first began,
Have earned their way to honor
By the Hard-Work Plan.
I knew a rich old banker’s son
Who had no aim in view
But just to sit around and loaf;
’Twas all he had to do.
“The old man,” he said, “will keep me,”
And “I don’t have to pay.”
He earns his bread and butter now
At fifty cents a day.
And then I knew another lad;
His folks had money, too;
He didn’t sit around and “loaf,”
But found some work to do.
The neighbors all were proud of him;
Said they: “He’ll make a man.”
He earned his way to greatness
By the Hard-Work Plan.
Go read the lives of men of note,
Consider their success;
What gave them wealth and eminence?
Did luck or genius bless?
Biography will tell us that
The race through which they ran
Was the contest known to history
As the Hard-Work Plan.
Don’t worry over genius;
Don’t say you have no brain;
Don’t sit and watch the stars of hope
Till the clouds bring up a rain;
But up and toil along the road,
And travel with the van,
And earn your way to greatness
By the Hard-Work Plan.
By Jonathan Jones
From the lowest depths of poverty
To the highest heights of fame,
From obscureness of position
To a bright and shining name,
From the mass of human beings
Who compose the common clan,
You can earn your way to greatness
By the Hard-Work Plan.
’Twas the key to Lincoln’s progress,
’Twas the route to Webster’s fame;
And Garfield by this method
To distinction laid his claim;
And all earth’s noblest heroes,
Since this old world first began,
Have earned their way to honor
By the Hard-Work Plan.
I knew a rich old banker’s son
Who had no aim in view
But just to sit around and loaf;
’Twas all he had to do.
“The old man,” he said, “will keep me,”
And “I don’t have to pay.”
He earns his bread and butter now
At fifty cents a day.
And then I knew another lad;
His folks had money, too;
He didn’t sit around and “loaf,”
But found some work to do.
The neighbors all were proud of him;
Said they: “He’ll make a man.”
He earned his way to greatness
By the Hard-Work Plan.
Go read the lives of men of note,
Consider their success;
What gave them wealth and eminence?
Did luck or genius bless?
Biography will tell us that
The race through which they ran
Was the contest known to history
As the Hard-Work Plan.
Don’t worry over genius;
Don’t say you have no brain;
Don’t sit and watch the stars of hope
Till the clouds bring up a rain;
But up and toil along the road,
And travel with the van,
And earn your way to greatness
By the Hard-Work Plan.
By Jonathan Jones
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Stick To Your Job
Diamonds are only chunks of coal
That stuck to their jobs, you see;
If they’d petered out, as most of us do,
Where would the diamonds be?
It isn’t the fact of making a start,
It’s the sticking that counts. I’ll say,
It’s the fellow that knows not the meaning of fall,
But hammers and hammers away.
Whenever you think you’ve come to the end,
And you’re beaten as bad as can be,
Remember that diamonds are chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
By Minnie Richard Smith: as published in Christian F. Kleinknecht: “Poor Richard’s Anthology of Thoughts on Success” (1947), page 44
Diamonds are only chunks of coal
That stuck to their jobs, you see;
If they’d petered out, as most of us do,
Where would the diamonds be?
It isn’t the fact of making a start,
It’s the sticking that counts. I’ll say,
It’s the fellow that knows not the meaning of fall,
But hammers and hammers away.
Whenever you think you’ve come to the end,
And you’re beaten as bad as can be,
Remember that diamonds are chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
By Minnie Richard Smith: as published in Christian F. Kleinknecht: “Poor Richard’s Anthology of Thoughts on Success” (1947), page 44
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Ten Enthusiastic Workers
Ten enthusiastic workers, vigorous and fine;
One had another commitment, and then there were nine.
Nine enthusiastic workers, excited and elate;
One got hired away, and then there were eight.
Eight enthusiastic workers, keeping things even;
One got sloppy, and then there were seven.
Seven enthusiastic workers, giving it their best;
One found it tedious, and then there were six.
Six enthusiastic workers, looking all alive;
One fell asleep, and then there were five.
Five enthusiastic workers, keeping up their score;
One showed up late, and then there were four.
Four enthusiastic workers, bright as bright can be;
One became careless, and then there were three.
Three enthusiastic workers, seeking work to do;
One thought he couldn’t, and then there were two.
Two enthusiastic workers, proud of good things done;
One grew too tired, and then there was one.
One enthusiastic worker, still hanging on;
Because persevering had made him strong.
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Ten enthusiastic workers, vigorous and fine;
One had another commitment, and then there were nine.
Nine enthusiastic workers, excited and elate;
One got hired away, and then there were eight.
Eight enthusiastic workers, keeping things even;
One got sloppy, and then there were seven.
Seven enthusiastic workers, giving it their best;
One found it tedious, and then there were six.
Six enthusiastic workers, looking all alive;
One fell asleep, and then there were five.
Five enthusiastic workers, keeping up their score;
One showed up late, and then there were four.
Four enthusiastic workers, bright as bright can be;
One became careless, and then there were three.
Three enthusiastic workers, seeking work to do;
One thought he couldn’t, and then there were two.
Two enthusiastic workers, proud of good things done;
One grew too tired, and then there was one.
One enthusiastic worker, still hanging on;
Because persevering had made him strong.
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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The Boy Without A Reference
John was fifteen, and anxious to get a desirable place in the office of a well-known lawyer, who had advertised for a boy. John doubted his success in obtaining this position, because, being a stranger in the city, he had no reference to present.
“I am afraid I will stand a poor chance,” he thought, despondently. “However, I will try to appear as well as I can, and that may help me a little.”
So he was careful to have his dress and person neat, and when he took his turn to be interviewed, went in with his hat in his hand and a smile on his face.
The keen-eyed lawyer glanced him over from head to foot. “Good face,” he thought, “and pleasant ways.” Then he noted the neat suit - but other boys had appeared in new clothes - saw the well-brushed hair, and clean skin. Very well; but there had been others quite as cleanly. Another glance, however, showed the fingernails free from dirt. “Ah, that looks like thoroughness,” thought the lawyer.
Then he asked a few direct, rapid questions, which John answered as directly. “Prompt,” was his mental comment; “can speak up when necessary.”
“Let’s see your writing,” he added aloud.
John took a pen and wrote his name.
“Very well; easy to read, and no flourishes. Now, what references have you?”
The dreadful question at last! John’s face fell. He had begun to feel some hope of success, but this dashed it again.
“I haven’t any,” he said, slowly. “I am almost a stranger in the city.”
“Cannot take a boy without references,” was the brusque reply.
As he spoke, a sudden thought sent a flush to John’s cheek. “I haven’t any reference,” he said, with hesitation; “but here is a letter from Mother which I just received. I wish you would read it.”
The lawyer took it. It was a short letter:
My Dear John,
I want to remind you that wherever you find work, you must consider that work your own. Do not go into it, as some boys do, with the feeling that you will do as little as you can and get something better soon, but make up your mind that you will do as much as possible, and make yourself so necessary to your employer that he will never let you go. You have been a good son to me, and I can truly say that I have never known you to shirk. Be as good in business, and I am sure God will bless your efforts.
“Hmm!” said the lawyer, reading it over the second time. “That’s pretty good advice, John, excellent advice. I rather think I will try you, even without the references.”
John has been with him six years, and last spring was admitted to the bar.
“Do you intend taking that young man into partnership?” asked a friend lately.
“Yes, I do. I could not get along without John; he is my right-hand man!” exclaimed the lawyer, heartily.
And John always says the best reference he ever had was his mother’s good advice and honest praise.
By Author Unknown
John was fifteen, and anxious to get a desirable place in the office of a well-known lawyer, who had advertised for a boy. John doubted his success in obtaining this position, because, being a stranger in the city, he had no reference to present.
“I am afraid I will stand a poor chance,” he thought, despondently. “However, I will try to appear as well as I can, and that may help me a little.”
So he was careful to have his dress and person neat, and when he took his turn to be interviewed, went in with his hat in his hand and a smile on his face.
The keen-eyed lawyer glanced him over from head to foot. “Good face,” he thought, “and pleasant ways.” Then he noted the neat suit - but other boys had appeared in new clothes - saw the well-brushed hair, and clean skin. Very well; but there had been others quite as cleanly. Another glance, however, showed the fingernails free from dirt. “Ah, that looks like thoroughness,” thought the lawyer.
Then he asked a few direct, rapid questions, which John answered as directly. “Prompt,” was his mental comment; “can speak up when necessary.”
“Let’s see your writing,” he added aloud.
John took a pen and wrote his name.
“Very well; easy to read, and no flourishes. Now, what references have you?”
The dreadful question at last! John’s face fell. He had begun to feel some hope of success, but this dashed it again.
“I haven’t any,” he said, slowly. “I am almost a stranger in the city.”
“Cannot take a boy without references,” was the brusque reply.
As he spoke, a sudden thought sent a flush to John’s cheek. “I haven’t any reference,” he said, with hesitation; “but here is a letter from Mother which I just received. I wish you would read it.”
The lawyer took it. It was a short letter:
My Dear John,
I want to remind you that wherever you find work, you must consider that work your own. Do not go into it, as some boys do, with the feeling that you will do as little as you can and get something better soon, but make up your mind that you will do as much as possible, and make yourself so necessary to your employer that he will never let you go. You have been a good son to me, and I can truly say that I have never known you to shirk. Be as good in business, and I am sure God will bless your efforts.
“Hmm!” said the lawyer, reading it over the second time. “That’s pretty good advice, John, excellent advice. I rather think I will try you, even without the references.”
John has been with him six years, and last spring was admitted to the bar.
“Do you intend taking that young man into partnership?” asked a friend lately.
“Yes, I do. I could not get along without John; he is my right-hand man!” exclaimed the lawyer, heartily.
And John always says the best reference he ever had was his mother’s good advice and honest praise.
By Author Unknown
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The Farmer
The dawn is here! I climb the hill;
The earth is young and strangely still;
A tender green is showing where
But yesterday my fields were bare . . .
I climb and, as I climb, I sing;
The dawn is here, and with it - spring!
My oxen stamp the ground, and they
Seem glad, with me, that soon the day
Will bring new work for us to do!
The light above is clear and blue;
And one great cloud that swirls on high,
Seems sent from earth to kiss the sky.
The birds are coming back again,
They know that soon the golden grain
Will wave above this fragrant loam;
The birds, with singing, hasten home;
And I, who watch them, feel their song.
Deep in my soul, and nothing wrong,
Or mean or small, can touch my heart . . .
Down in the vale the smoke-wreaths start,
To softly curl above the trees;
The fingers of a vagrant breeze
Steal tenderly across my hair,
And toil is fled, and want, and care!
The dawn is here! I climb the hill;
My very oxen seem to thrill -
To feel the mystery of day.
The sun creeps out, and far away
From man-made law I worship God,
Who made the light, the cloud, the sod;
I worship smilingly, and sing!
The dawn is here, and with it - spring!
By Margaret E. Sangster
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was born on 22 February 1838 in New Rochelle, New York, United States of America. She was married to George Sangster in October 1858. She became a writer, a poet, and a magazine editor. Her autobiography is titled, “From My Youth Up: Personal Reminiscences” (1909). Margaret Elizabeth Sangster passed on at 74 years of age on 3 June 1912 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America.
The dawn is here! I climb the hill;
The earth is young and strangely still;
A tender green is showing where
But yesterday my fields were bare . . .
I climb and, as I climb, I sing;
The dawn is here, and with it - spring!
My oxen stamp the ground, and they
Seem glad, with me, that soon the day
Will bring new work for us to do!
The light above is clear and blue;
And one great cloud that swirls on high,
Seems sent from earth to kiss the sky.
The birds are coming back again,
They know that soon the golden grain
Will wave above this fragrant loam;
The birds, with singing, hasten home;
And I, who watch them, feel their song.
Deep in my soul, and nothing wrong,
Or mean or small, can touch my heart . . .
Down in the vale the smoke-wreaths start,
To softly curl above the trees;
The fingers of a vagrant breeze
Steal tenderly across my hair,
And toil is fled, and want, and care!
The dawn is here! I climb the hill;
My very oxen seem to thrill -
To feel the mystery of day.
The sun creeps out, and far away
From man-made law I worship God,
Who made the light, the cloud, the sod;
I worship smilingly, and sing!
The dawn is here, and with it - spring!
By Margaret E. Sangster
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was born on 22 February 1838 in New Rochelle, New York, United States of America. She was married to George Sangster in October 1858. She became a writer, a poet, and a magazine editor. Her autobiography is titled, “From My Youth Up: Personal Reminiscences” (1909). Margaret Elizabeth Sangster passed on at 74 years of age on 3 June 1912 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States of America.
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If I Were Boss
If I were boss I would like to say:
“You did a good job here today.”
I’d look for a man, a girl or boy
Whose heart would leap with a thrill of joy.
A word of appreciation, I’d pass it out
Where the crowd would hear as I walked about.
If I were boss I would like to find
The fellow whose work is the proper kind.
And whenever to me a good thing came
I’d ask to be told the toiler’s name,
And I’d go to him, I’d pat his back
And I’d say, “That was perfectly splendid, Jack!”
Now a bit of appreciation isn’t much to give,
But it’s dear to the hearts of all who live;
And there’s never a man on this good old earth
But is glad to be told he’s been of worth.
And a kindly word, when the work is fair,
Is welcome and wanted everywhere.
If I were boss I am sure I would
Say a kind word whenever I could.
For a man who has given his best by day
Wants a little more than his weekly pay;
He likes to know, with the setting sun,
That his boss is pleased with the work he’s done.
By Norma Kibbe
If I were boss I would like to say:
“You did a good job here today.”
I’d look for a man, a girl or boy
Whose heart would leap with a thrill of joy.
A word of appreciation, I’d pass it out
Where the crowd would hear as I walked about.
If I were boss I would like to find
The fellow whose work is the proper kind.
And whenever to me a good thing came
I’d ask to be told the toiler’s name,
And I’d go to him, I’d pat his back
And I’d say, “That was perfectly splendid, Jack!”
Now a bit of appreciation isn’t much to give,
But it’s dear to the hearts of all who live;
And there’s never a man on this good old earth
But is glad to be told he’s been of worth.
And a kindly word, when the work is fair,
Is welcome and wanted everywhere.
If I were boss I am sure I would
Say a kind word whenever I could.
For a man who has given his best by day
Wants a little more than his weekly pay;
He likes to know, with the setting sun,
That his boss is pleased with the work he’s done.
By Norma Kibbe
