Quotes About Work

Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal. Kennels Supplied.

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good—for slaves, at least.

Ese trabajo era estrictamente voluntario, pero el animal que se negara a hacerlo vería reducidas sus raciones a la mitad.

Poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or fountain pen.

Scopo essenziale della guerra è la distruzione, non necessariamente di vite umane, ma di quanto viene prodotto dal lavoro degli uomini. La guerra è un modo per mandare in frantumi, scaraventare nella stratosfera, affondare negli abissi marini, materiali che altrimenti potrebbero essere usati per rendere le masse troppo agiate e, a lungo andare, troppo intelligenti.

So, dear brothers, since evidently you must sweat to pay for our trips to Italy, sweat and be damned to you.

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work in itself is good in itself—for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery. I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think

To sum up. A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure.

losing your job does not mean that you cease to be a human being.

It is so with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. More than anyone else, perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of the manual worker, not only because his work is so exaggeratedly awful, but also because it is so vitally necessary and yet so remote from our experience, so invisible, as it were, that we are capable of forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins.

Si tolga l'uomo dalla scena e sarà tolta per sempre la causa della fame e della fatica. L'uomo è la sola creatura che consuma senza produrre. Egli non dà latte, non fa uova, è troppo debole per tirare l'aratro, non può correre abbastanza velocemente per prendere i conigli. E tuttavia è il signore di tutti gli animali.

Napoleon is always right,' in addition to his private motto of 'I will work harder.

Of all types of human being, only the artist takes it upon him to say that he cannot work.

If a rich man builds him a new palace, is the gold he pays out gone? No, the brickmaker has part of it and  the laborer has part of it, and the artist has part of it. And everyone who labors upon the house has part of it

Wealth grows wherever men exert energy

And then another friend spoke up and said, If what you tell is true, and it does seem as you have said, reasonable, then being so simple, if all men did it, there would not be enough wealth to go around. Wealth grows wherever men exert energy, Arkad replied. If a rich man builds him a new palace, is the gold he pays out

but I wish my labors to be fairly rewarded.

Cada um tem seu lugar. Fico feliz que o trabalho não seja reservado para escravos. Se fosse esse o caso, eu seria privado de meu maior prazer. Muitas coisas eu gosto, mas nada substitui o trabalho.

Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

You pay to everyone but yourself. Dullard, you labor for others.

That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.

Prometa-me, garoto, caso consiga um mestre, que vai trabalhar para ele o máximo que puder. Se ele não valorizar tudo o que você fizer, tudo bem, isso não importa. Lembre-se: um trabalho bem-feito faz bem ao homem que o faz. Isso o torna um homem melhor." Ele parou quando

You speak but half the truth," he retorted. "Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave.

ESTE, ENTONCES, ES EL TERCER REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. PON A TRABAJAR CADA MONEDA PARA QUE SE REPRODUZCA, ASÍ COMO LOS REBAÑOS EN EL CAMPO, PARA QUE TE TRAIGA INGRESOS, UNA FUENTE DE RIQUEZA QUE FLUIRÁ CONSTANTEMENTE A TU BOLSA.