“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.”

“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”