Work & Money Sayings

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

My son-in-law, Agrippa, had built many magnificent buildings, but I surpassed him in the number of public works.

The Master said, 'Riches and honors are what men desire. If they cannot be obtained in the proper way, they should not be held. Poverty and meanness are what men dislike. If they cannot be avoided in the proper way, they should not be avoided.'

He used to say that the most beautiful thing in the world was the universe, for it was the work of God.

If you want to be rich, do not heap up riches, but diminish your desires.

My work on chronology is an attempt to establish a scientific basis for history.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Work conquers all.

A horse that has been broken can be ridden; a man who has been taught can be employed.