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“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

Stills Hours Work Company Sitting Train Miles Sixty Going To Work Human Resources Getting High Sitting Still Large Companies

Author:J. Paul Getty

“Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.”

Work Pay Car Thirds Train Unions Shoes Boxes Dues Suits Destination Worn Midnight Worn Out Maine

Author:Roger Miller

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”

Trying Jobs Work Teach Failing Failure Experience Train Experiments Employee Inventor Keep Trying Learning From Failure Inventions And Inventors Trying And Failing

Author:Charles Kettering

“Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.”

Mean Long Night Work Failure Luck Train Endure Hardship Devoted Appointments Long Nights

Book:'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life

Source: 'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life

“Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.”

Men Young Work Honest Honesty Train Being Honest God Love Young Man Work Love

Author:Milton S. Hershey

“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”

Children Work Society Objects Train Profit Employers Profitable Getting High Employing

Book:Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South

Source: Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South