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.

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

A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

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.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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

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

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