Workaholic Tip ...

Our culture celebrates the idea of the workaholic ... Not only is this workaholism unnecessary, it’s stupid. Working more doesn’t mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more ... If all you do is work, you’re unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision-making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what’s worth extra effort and what’s not.

[Thank you, Jason Fried & David Hansson]

George Benard Shaw Rule of Thumb

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rule of Thumb

Light tomorrow with today!

Guy Kawasaki Rule of Thumb

Success in business comes from a willingness to grind it out ... it's not because of a brilliant idea, it's because you're willing to work hard.

Confucius Rule of Thumb

Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life!

Willa Cather Rule of Thumb

That's the only thing that isn't fake ... making men and machines go, and actually turning out a product.

Johann Schiller Rule of Thumb

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

William Hewlett Rule of Thumb

If we concentrate on productivity and lose the element of fun at work, then we will have lost everything.

Theodore Isaac Rubin Rule of Thumb

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Vera Shury Rule of Thumb

Ants make a big hill one grain at a time.

Teddy Roosevelt Rule of Thumb

There has not been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Richard Cumberland Rule of Thumb

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Lori Dorn Rule of Thumb

When interviewing job applicants, all of your questions should be directly related to the job in question and the job duties the applicant would be required to perform if hired ... of course, you also need to steer clear of asking applicants about their age, race, color, sex, disability, religion, national origin, pregnancy, and other protected classifications.

Peter Drucker Rule of Thumb

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Aristotle Rule of Thumb

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Henri Matisse Rule of Thumb

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

John Ruskin Rule of Thumb

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it.

Richard Bach Rule of Thumb

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Thomas A. Edison Rule of Thumb

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Fredrick Winslow Taylor Rule of Thumb

Replace rule-of-thumb methods of doing work with ones based on scientific study of the tasks to be carried out.