Larry Page Quotes

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.

Free time is the enemy of progress

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.