"There is much more to life than work and there is much more to work than work." - Jagdish Parikh "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided." - Mark Twain "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." - George Carlin "The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." - George Carlin "I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi "The definition of woman's work is shitwork." - Gloria Steinem "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." - Ogden Nash "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - C. Northcote Parkinson, _Parkinson's Law_ "Far away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt "If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled." - Will Rogers "I never made a dime talking." - Sebastian Spering Kresge, only words at a 1953 speech at Harvard University "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." - Drayton Bird "One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without false ego, with great determination and enthusiasm, and without wavering in success or failure is said to be a worker in the mode of goodness." - The Bhagvad Gita (18.26) "The hired man does not owe the employer gratitude; he owes him a definite quantity of work of a definite kind and quality." - Ludwig von Mises "The American worker is badly mistaken when he believes that his high standard of living is due to his own excellence." - Ludwig von Mises "My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh—anything but work." - Abraham Lincoln "Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong." - Georges Wolinski "I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself." - Joseph Conrad, _Heart of Darkness_