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“But it seems to Samuel that all the school is preparing them for is to sit quietly and fake that they're working. To feign the appearance of concentration when in fact they're checking sports scores or e-mail or watching videos or spacing out. And come to think of it, maybe this is the most important lesson the school could teach them about the American workplace: how to sit calmly a your desk and surf the internet and not go insane.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.”

“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.”

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.”

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.”