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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of division of labour.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

All wealth is the product of labor.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I’m probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

What is once well done is done forever.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be, and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.