1001 Best Things Ever Said about Work by Ernie Zelinski - HTML preview

WORK

(and the Workplace)

Chosen and Arranged by Ernie J. Zelinski, Author of: Real Success Without a Real Job

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Introduction

"It is a good thing for an educated man," declared Winston Churchill, "to read books of quotations." Anatole France advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Not to be outdone, George Bernard Shaw once remarked, "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversations."

No doubt few things spice up an article, a book, a conversation, or a speech more than a well-chosen quotation. Given that work is one of the most written and talked about subjects in Western society, there should be a book of great quotations about work and the workplace. This is the book!

Organized into over 125 categories for easy reference, this is the ultimate guide about work for the professional speaker, journalist, author, career advisor, life coach, and connoisseur of great quotations. It also makes great reading for just about everyone.

This book has it all: Wisdom. Ridicule. Irony. Sarcasm. Paradox. Nonsense. Comedy. Mockery. Social commentary. Valuable insight. All told, you have in your possession the 1001 best things ever said about work and the workplace.

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Table of Contents

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Ability ...........................................................................1
Accomplishing the Impossible .................................2
Action...........................................................................4
Aggravations of Work ................................................5
Ambition .....................................................................8
Artists at Work ........................................................ 10
Bad Days at Work ................................................... 12
Boring Work ............................................................. 13
Breaking New Ground ........................................... 15
Bureaucracy............................................................. 16
Busyness ................................................................. 17
Careers..................................................................... 19
Career Advice ......................................................... 20
Change in the Workplace ..................................... 23
Committees.............................................................. 24
Communication in the Workplace ........................ 26
Competence ........................................................... 27
Competition ............................................................. 29
Computers .............................................................. 31
Creativity in the Workplace.................................... 34
Crisis Management................................................. 36
Dating People at Work .......................................... 37
Delegation................................................................ 37

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Difficulty at Work ..................................................... 39
Diplomacy in the Workplace ................................ 40
Dream Jobs ............................................................ 41
Dress in the Workplace.......................................... 42
Earning a Living ..................................................... 44
Eccentrics at Work ................................................. 45
Education and Training .......................................... 47
Efficiency and Efficient Workers ........................... 50
Enjoyment of Work ................................................. 52
Equality .................................................................... 55
Evils of Work ........................................................... 59
Excellence at Work ................................................. 61
Experience ............................................................... 63
Experts and Specialists in the Workplace........... 64
Failure ...................................................................... 66
Freedom and Work ................................................. 69
Friends and Work.................................................... 70
Fun in the Workplace ............................................. 71
Geniuses at Work ................................................... 73
Getting Employment .............................................. 74
Getting Fired ........................................................... 76
Goals ......................................................................... 78
Government Workers ............................................. 81
Gratitude for Work .................................................. 82

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Table of Contents (Continued)

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Happiness in the Workplace ................................ 83
Hard Work ................................................................ 85
Hard Work and Wealth........................................... 87
Haste ......................................................................... 88
Having a Balanced Lifestyle .................................. 90
Health in the Workplace......................................... 93
Hiring the Right People ......................................... 94
Holidays and Vacations ........................................ 97
Housework ............................................................... 99
Humor in the Workplace ......................................100
Ideas .......................................................................103
Idleness ..................................................................105
Ignorance ...............................................................107
Imagination ............................................................107
Incompetence .......................................................109
Innovation ..............................................................110
Integrity in the Workplace ....................................111
Intellectual Work ..................................................112
Intelligence in the Workplace .............................113
Jobs ........................................................................114
Job Security ..........................................................116
Knowledge .............................................................117
Laziness .................................................................117
Leadership .............................................................120

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Leisure and Work .................................................124
Leisurely Lifestyle .................................................126
Life and Work ........................................................128
Life-Long Career ...................................................129
Loving Your Work .................................................129
Luck.........................................................................132
Management ..........................................................133
Manual Labor ........................................................136
Marriage and Work ...............................................138
Meetings .................................................................139
Mistakes ................................................................140
Morality of Work ....................................................142
Motivation to Work ................................................142
Multi-Tasking ........................................................143
New Ventures ........................................................145
Not Working for a Living ......................................145
Obvious Solutions .................................................146
Opportunity ...........................................................146
Overwork ..............................................................147
Paperwork ..............................................................150
Patience ................................................................151
Perfection ...............................................................152
Persistence ...........................................................154
Plans .......................................................................155

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Table of Contents (Continued)

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Power......................................................................156
Praise and Recognition........................................157
Pride........................................................................158
Problem Solving ...................................................158
Procrastination ......................................................161
Productivity in the Workplace ...........................163
Professions and Professionals ...........................165
Progress ................................................................167
Promotions ............................................................169
Punctuality in the Workplace ..............................170
Purpose of Work ..................................................171
Research and Reports .........................................173
Results ...................................................................174
Retirement from Work ..........................................175
Rewards from Work .............................................178
Risk Taking ............................................................179
Rocking the Boat ..................................................180
Rules in the Workplace .......................................181
Rules of Work .......................................................182
Quitting Work ........................................................183
Salaries and Wages ............................................185
Schedules .............................................................186
Secrets to Success at One's Work.....................187
Self-Employment...................................................188

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Table of Contents (Continued)

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Shabby Work .........................................................189
Speech Making ....................................................190
Statistics .................................................................192
Stress in the Workplace ......................................193
Success ..................................................................194
Talent .....................................................................197
Teamwork ..............................................................198
Time Management ...............................................200
Unemployment .....................................................202
Unions .....................................................................204
Unusual Ways to Earn a Living .........................205
Vocations ..............................................................207
Wasted Time ........................................................208
Winners and Losers ............................................209
Workaholics ...........................................................211
Working for Free ...................................................213
Working Fools ........................................................213
Worry and Work ....................................................214
Work Ethic .............................................................216
Working Smart and Not Hard..............................217
Writers at Work ....................................................219
Zen at Work ...........................................................221
About the Author ...................................................222
About Real Success Without a Real Job.......224

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Three Life-Changing Books by Ernie J. Zelinski

 

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Ability

 

Women can do any job men can and give birth while doing it.

 

— Allan Heavey

 

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

 

— Oscar Wilde

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.

— Martin H. Fischer

 

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

— John G. Pollard
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

— John Wooden

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

— Cyrus Curtis

 

With my brains and your looks, we could go places.

 

— Actor John Garfield in the movie The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

Accomplishing the Impossible

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

— Eric Hoffer

 

The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.

— World War II military slogan
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little ways past them into the impossible.

— Arthur C. Clarke

 

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

 

— Walter Gagehot

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

— Golo Mann

 

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. — Doug Larson

 

Action

 

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

 

— Thomas Henry Huxley

 

Action should culminate in wisdom.

 

— Bhagavad Gita

 

Inaction may be the highest form of action.

 

— Jerry Brown

 

There is nothing brilliant nor outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing: I do the things that I believe ought to be done .... And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

— Theodore Roosevelt

So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. — Lord Tennyson

Aggravations of Work

 

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

 

— Malcolm Forbes

 

Boy, the things I do for England.

 

— Prince Charles (on sampling snake meat)

 

You are no bigger than the things that annoy you.

 

— Jerry Bundsen

 

It's only work if somebody makes you do it. — Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes cartoon

 

Employees who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do. — Unknown wise person

 

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

— Robert Updegraff
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

— Kenneth Kaunda

 

Little things affect little minds. — Benjamin Disraeli

 

You can and you must expect suffering. — Mother Teresa

 

When you're going through hell, keep going. — Albert Einstein

 

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. — Epictetus

 

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

 

— Mark Twain

 

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. — Thomas Jefferson

 

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Ambition

 

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

— Salvador Dali

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

— Jonathan Swift

 

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much more ambitious project. — Graffiti

 

Ambition — it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

 

— J. M. Barrie

 

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. — Oscar Wilde

 

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

 

— Susan Sontag

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

— Jean de La Bruyère

 

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

 

— William Blake

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit,