Best work & responsibility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.”

People Humans Important Hands Individual Work Responsibility Careers Skills Connections Function Possession Reputation Firm Networking Organizational

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.”

Ifs Work Responsibility Accepting Position Hard Work Circumstances Benefits Harder Extras Bucks Work Harder Peanuts

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”

Ifs Men Children Jobs Women Work Responsibility Careers Conflict Trade Your Children Bucks Disregard Trade Offs Family Conflict Work Family Responsibility For Children

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.”

“I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.”

Thinking Way Wells Jobs Used Work Business Responsibility Environment Impact I Realized Sustainability Advocating

Author:Ray Anderson

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

Source: You learn by living

“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”

Inspirational Individual Work Business Responsibility Economics Management Profit Corporations Sarcastic Devices Truthful Ingenious Obtaining Moral Responsibility Individual Responsibility Business Ethics Profit Motive

Book:The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)

Source: The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

Thinking World Ends Science Time Humanity Individual Work Responsibility Share Particular Duty Aids Improvement Improving Marie

Author:Marie Curie

“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself”

Can Do Work Responsibility Trouble

Book:Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

“It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.”

Ifs Knows Problem Eye Together Work Numbers Responsibility Knowing Team Strength Easier Ignorant Working Together Teamwork Collaboration Unstoppable Columnists Strength In Numbers

Author:Craig Kielburger

“Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.”

Men Challenges Work Responsibility Leisure

Author:William Russell

“Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.”

“No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.”

Has Beens Made Action Work Decision Responsibility Steps Assignments

Book:The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”

Motivation Work Responsibility Fire Genius Characteristics Strongest Lighting

Book:The life and thoughts of John Foster

Source: The life and thoughts of John Foster

“Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in continuing to liberate our way of thinking, carry on reform and opening, further unleash and develop the productive forces, work hard to resolve the difficulties the people face in both work and life, and steadfastly take the road of prosperity for all.”

People Hard Whole Nations Work Party Responsibility Greater Groups Mankind Rocks Chinese Firm Contribution Historic Renewal Ethnic Groups Baton

Author:Xi Jinping

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