Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

—Elbert Hubbard

About Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora,...

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

—Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

—Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

—Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

—Elbert Hubbard

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

—Elbert Hubbard

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

—Edgar Bergen

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

—Diane Ackerman

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

—David McCullough

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