It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.