“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”

“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.”

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”

“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.”

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”