“Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Work
Peter Drucker on Management
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Continue reading
John C. Dvorak on Computers and Business
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.” Continue reading
Oscar Wilde on Income
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” Continue reading
Robert Copeland on Committees
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.” Continue reading
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Work
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.” Continue reading
Jerome K. Jerome on Laziness
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Thought
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” Continue reading
Jerome K. Jerome on Work
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” Continue reading