“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
— Andrew S. Grove“I have no dress except the one I wear. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one [a wedding dress], please let it be practical and dark, so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
— Marie Curie“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Here I’d like to introduce the concept of leverage, which is the output generated by a specific type of work activity. An activity with high leverage will generate a high level of output; an activity with low leverage, a low level of output.”
— Andrew S. Grove“If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The difference between a good software person and a great software person is fifty to one, twenty-five to fifty to one, huge dynamic range.”
— Steve Jobs“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas EdisonWork Industry Action Talents Practical