Hard work never kills anybody who supervises it.

Hard work is as damn near overrated as monogamy.

How do I work? I grope.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

There's no end to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.

The best labour-saving scheme I discovered is to have a file marked 'Too Difficult', dealing with matters which, in the nature of things, could never be solved or would solve themselves without human contrivance. It saves a lot of meaningless effort and unnecessary qualms of conscience.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.

Customers give carpenters the hardest time on the smallest jobs.

The secret of a long life is double careers. One to about age 60, then another for the next thirty years.