In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
I live, like every real man, in my work.
Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.