“The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.”
“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.”
“We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.”
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.”
“A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.”
“Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.”