1. Nothing is most likely to cause a person to become exhausted and damage a person more than to not engage in physical activity for a long time. ——Aristotle

2. Genius is labor. Human talent is like a spark. It can be extinguished or burned. There is only one way to force it to burn into a raging fire, which is labor. Work again. ——Gorky

3. Labor is the father of happiness. ——Franklin

4. A hard-working farmer is nobler than a sitting gentleman. ——Franklin

5. I think the best way to find happiness in life is to respect labor. All happiness can be obtained through labor, and all suffering can be relieved by labor. ——Li Dazhao

6. Look! Isn’t the world a work of art? Without labor there would be no world. ——Deng Zhongxia

7. Wherever there is genius, I spend all the time others spend drinking coffee on work. ——Lu Xun

8. A life of suffering is the best training in my life, especially being a salesman has made me learn a lot and understand a lot. So these are things I can’t buy even with 1 billion to 10 billion. ——Li Ka-shing

9. Laziness is the door to all evil - a lazy person is like a house without walls, the devil can enter from any direction. ——Chaucer

10. Diligence is a priceless treasure, prudence is the art of self-protection. ——Shakespeare

11. Labor builds people’s confidence in their own intellectual power. ——Gorky

12. Everything must be done in a down-to-earth manner, not in fantasy, not in vain, but in a down-to-earth manner with an attitude of seeking truth. If you study with this attitude, you can understand the truth, and if you do things with this attitude, you can achieve success. ——Li Dazhao

13. Labor can arouse people’s creativity. ——Leo Tolstoy

14. Love labor. No power can make people become great and smart like labor, that is, the power of collective, friendly, and free labor. ——Gorky

15. Laziness is like rust, which consumes the body more than hard work. Keys that are frequently used are always shiny. ——Franklin

16. The entrepreneurs of the next century will be completely different from me, because the success of entrepreneurs in the new century depends on technology and knowledge, not money.

——Li Ka-shing