Concerned Quote by Tom Hodgkinson

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

— Sun Tzu

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

— Henry Ford

“As you’ll see in the discussions ahead, the shortcuts and modern marvels of work don’t come without a cost. Thriving in the new era…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth…

— Rutger Bregman

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies…

— Kelly Miller

Since long workdays lead to more errors, shorter workdays could reduce accidents. Overtime is deadly. Tired surgeons have been found to be more prone…

— Rutger Bregman

Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of…

— Joshua Reynolds

“Cynics have observed that those who have benefited the most from “progress”—the citizens of the First World—are the people most inclined to disdain it.…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes…

— Ludwig von Mises

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one…

— Criss Jami

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is…

— Colin Powell