Horace Greeley Quotes

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

We must use time creatively.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Our nation needs hard-working, innovative, dedicated people.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

That man is idle who can do something better.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

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

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Make it work

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!