You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
- Oprah Winfrey

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
- Orison Swett Marden

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- William Patten

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
- Earl Nightingale

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas A. Edison

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
- Harding Lawrence

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
- Brian Tracy

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson