"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."
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"Punctuality is the thief of time"
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all."
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"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."
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"The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor."
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"There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much."
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"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."
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"The more you think, the more time you have."
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"So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day."
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"Never confuse movement with action."
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"You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard."
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"Without labor nothing prospers."
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"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."
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"Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work."
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"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."
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"The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic."
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"An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert."
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"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
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"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
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