I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
— Neil Simon
I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
— Bill Gold
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
— Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)
Learn young about hard work and manners — and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I get an irresistible urge to work hard like everyone else, but I just lie down until the feeling goes away, and then I'm okay.
— Cartoon caption in The Joy of Not Working
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
— Bruce Lee
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
— Kin Hubbard
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
— George Jean Nathan
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
— Graffiti
I'm impressed with people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
— Michael Douglas
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them.
— Lily Tomlin
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
— Don Marquis
Hard Work and Wealth
Creating wealth does not require hard work, self-sacrifice or getting up ridiculously early, just quality of thought, imagination, and enthusiasm for what you do.
— from Anxiety Culture
Everyone who does not work has a scheme that does.
— Unknown wise person
I don't want to be the richest man in the graveyard.
— Song by Ben Kerr (Toronto busker)
Haste
Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
— Lord Chesterfield
The hurrier we go, the behinder we get.
— Old Dutch proverb
If you are in a hurry you will never get there.
— Chinese proverb
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else — we are the busiest people in the world.
— Eric Hoffer
Three Ways to Handle a Task Fast: 1. Do it yourself. 2. Hire an expert to handle it for you. 3. Decide that it isn't worth doing and strike it off your to-do list.
— from Real Success WITHOUT a Real Job
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
— Unknown wise person
Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
They stumble that run fast.
— William Shakespeare
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
— Will Durant
People forget how fast you did a job — but they remember how well you did it.
— Howard Newton
Having a Balanced Life-Style
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
— Jeanne-Marie Roland
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
— Benjamin Franklin