Work
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.”
Elbert Hubbard on Work & Technology
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Anatole France on Work
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
Elbert Hubbard on Vacations
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
Pablo Picasso on Work
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
Oswald Chambers on Work
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
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.”
Peter Drucker on Management
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Maya Angelou on Work
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Arnold J. Toynbee on Work
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
Jerome K. Jerome on Work
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Mark Twain on Procrastination
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
Don Marquis on Work
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'”
Robert Copeland on Committees
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.”
Marie Curie on Work
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
Robert Frost on Work
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
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.”
Don Marquis on Procrastination
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Jerome K. Jerome on Laziness
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
Mark Twain on Work
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
George Burns on Politics
“Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.”
Thomas A. Edison on Opportunity
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
A. H. Weiler on Power
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
James M. Barrie on Work
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”