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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906The Revolution, Women’s Suffrage Newspaper (8 October 1868)
- Women
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison’s Mother (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12
- Success
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990The Peter Principle (1969), p. 25: Statement of the Peter Principle
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 80.In context
- Economics
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
- Comedy
Freud’s prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Love
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Los Angeles Free Press” Interview (April 25 1969, p. 43)
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
John Ruskin1819–1900Lectures on Art (1870), Lecture III
- Art
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
Salvador Dalí1904–1989Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 79
- Freedom
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie1890–1976An Autobiography (1977), Part III: Growing Up, §II
- Ideas
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“A Visit to Nikola Tesla” by Dragislav L. Petković, Politika (April 1927)
- Time
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)
- Knowledge
- Love
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein1879–1955The World As I See It (1949)
- Government
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XII
- Success
Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1777)