Work and Recreation

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.

Unknown, (probably a misquote of Peter's Principle), in Work and Recreation

You may only have two of the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of money.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Work and Recreation

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Jane Hopkins, in Work and Recreation

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

If food were free, why work?

Doug Horton, in Work and Recreation

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard, in Work and Recreation

People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.

Elbert Hubbard, in Work and Recreation

Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief.

Unknown, (attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal), in Work and Recreation

The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Unknown, (The Talmud), in Work and Recreation

The early bird catches the worm.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study. Theft from three or more is research.

Unknown, in Science and Religion and Work and Recreation

There are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. It's better to belong to the first group because there is less competition.

Unknown, (Wilson on Home Improvement), in Work and Recreation