Office gossip is always true.
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Nothing sucks the joy out of an avocation like trying to make a living at it.
To be paid for opinions corrupts; and to be paid for particular opinions corrupts absolutely.
First school spoils us for learning, and then jobs spoil us for work.
Passion, n. An overwhelming urge to spend your life at something you don’t do especially well.
It is when we recognize our hopeless inadequacy at everything else that we discover our vocation.
Working on an easy task when you are capable of a hard one is a particularly insidious form of procrastination.
A career is tolerable only in retrospect.
The business of America is busyness.
If you aren’t supposed to use people, what do you do with them?