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“All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.”

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Author:Elton John

“End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.”

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Author:Ray Davies

“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”

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Author:Carmine Gallo

“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.”

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Author:Philip Larkin

“What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.”

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Author:Corinne Maier

“There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.”

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Author:Robert Peel

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

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Author:John Lubbock

“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”

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Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.”

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Author:Bill Budge

“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”

“I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.”

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Author:Vince McMahon

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.”

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Author:Lori Greiner

“Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.”

“Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.”

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Author:Joao Magueijo

“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”

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Author:Rose Schneiderman

“"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know."”

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Author:Kim Clijsters

“There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.”

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Author:Jeff Daniels