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- Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
- Mencius (371 BC - 289 BC), Works
- Even though work stops, expenses run on.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), On Agriculture
- Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
- Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535), Works
- If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
- What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
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