“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Work
Samuel Johnson on Work
Peter Drucker on Work
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Procrastination
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” Continue reading
Bob Hope on Sports
“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” Continue reading
Jerome K. Jerome on Work
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson on Luck
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” Continue reading
M. C. Escher on Work
“My work is a game, a very serious game.” Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Continue reading
Peter Drucker on Management
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Continue reading
Bruce Grocott on Work
“I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.” Continue reading


