Work and Profession

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Well done is better than well said.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Asking “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done.

The matter is as it is in all other cases: If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, ‘Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they sit down they do not know what they have said.’

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants.

If you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Drive thy Business, or it will drive thee.

There is only one valid definition of business: to create a customer.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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