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He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.

– H. E. Martz

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

– H. E. Martz

He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

– Richard Willard Armour

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

– J. R. R. Tolkien

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.

– Walter Williams

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.

– Anne Lamott

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

– Vaclav Havel

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

– Vaclav Havel

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

– Marie Curie

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

– Stephen Butler Leacock

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

– Coleman Cox

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

– Benjamin Franklin

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil

– William James

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

– Bette Davis

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

– Henry Ford

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

– His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

I do most of my work sitting down that's where I shine.

– Robert Charles Benchley

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

– Ronald Reagan

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

– Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

– Lucille Ball

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

– Joseph Conrad

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

– Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

– Woody Allen

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)

– Albert Einstein

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

– William Ernest Hocking

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