- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for Obamacare's cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay for the subsidies to cover insurance company costs on those with pre-existing conditions.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
- Nov 07, 2020
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020