Quotes on work

I usually try to take notes on stuff that hits me...and lately it seems like the
best place to keep that stuff is on this blog. So pay no attention if you're not
interested...it's just random notes.


I think most of use are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the
assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are
not big enough for people
-Studs Terkel

You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given
place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions
per hou. But you can not buy enthusiasm...you can not buy loyalty...you can
not buy the devotion of hearts, minds or souls. you must earn these.
-Clarence Francis

Down at the plant, I'm doing a job. And when I die, somebody else will be
doing this job. And when he dies, somebody else will do it. I dunno. Makes
you feel great to be a part of something like that.
-Homer Simpson

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good
artist, or a good workman.
-John Ruskin

People cannot be trusted to do their jobs if they do not know how. And if
they have incompetent leaders, the coefficient of the mistrust is the number
of those leaders multiplied by the number of people who report to them.
-John O Whitney

Try to avoid the mistaken notion that money actually measures anyone's
worth. If it did, Madonna would be a better person than Mother Teresa.

Make a serious effort never to do anything you're not good at, unless you
don't have any choice. And while you're doing what you have no choice
about, figure out what you are good at. Then try to get hired to do that.

Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with
whatever gift each of you has received.
-1 Peter 4:10