“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
— Andrew S. Grove Primary source“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 Secondary source“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 Primary source“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“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 Primary source“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“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 Primary source“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“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 Primary source“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Edison DisputedIndustry Work Action Today Tomorrow