The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
To work is to feel alive.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.
I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
Working gets in the way of living.
Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.