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Work and Recreation
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997
If food were free, why work?
# · Bad (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
People forget how fast you did a job — but they remember how well you did it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
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