Work quotes

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.