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.

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

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.

“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

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