Accumulating wealth Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

— Dalai Lama

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want…

— Henri Lefebvre

“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”

— John Fiske

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

— Benjamin Franklin

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage…

— Henri Lefebvre

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one…

— Clement Greenberg

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

— Aristotle

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being…

— George Bernard Shaw

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that…

— Henry Ward Beecher