Famous Quotes

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

C. Northcote Parkinson on Work

More quotes about Work

• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

  Confucius on Work

• "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

  Thomas A. Edison on Work

• "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

  Robert Frost on Work

• "Nothing will work unless you do."

  Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson

• "A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

• "In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

• "Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."

• "The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."