Chase your passion, not your pension.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

My son Luke thinks it's cool that his dad quit his job

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it or change it.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's a depression when you lose yours.