Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
ELBERT HUBBARDMost people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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True life lies in laughter, love and work.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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