Praise the Lord, O my soul: and forget not all his benefits (Psalm 103)
If any would not work, neither should he eat. (II Thessalonians)
How should we strive ourselves, call and command
All hands to work!
(Christ Church MS)
Sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Say brother, dont't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.
(Merle Travis, 1947)
Though we all day with care work attend,
Such is our fate, we know not when 'twill end.
When evening's come, you homeward take your way;
We, till our work is done, are forced to stay.
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So the industrious bees do hourly strive
To bring their loads of honey to the hive;
Their sordid owners always reap the gains,
And poorly recompense their toils and pains.
(Mary Collier, A Woman's Labor, 1739)
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. (William Wrigley Jr.)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. (R.L.Stevenson)
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. (Sydney Biddle Barrows)
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. (Thomas Jefferson)
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. (David Rockefeller)
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. (Paul Hawken)
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. (Stewart B. Johnson)
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