“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.”
Walls and Bars (1927)
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Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Wesley Clark (1944) American general and former Democratic Party presidential candidate
Response to State of the Union speech (20 January 2004) http://www.clark04.com/press/release/197/
C. V. Raman (1888–1970) Indian physicist
[Raman, C. V., Chandralekha, Why the Sky is Blue: Dr. C.V. Raman Talks about Science, http://books.google.com/books?id=LOC3vbnTgHYC&pg=PT1, 2010, Tulika Books, 978-81-8146-846-8, 17]
“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Vol. 2, letter 3.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery
Variant: The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Source: Up from Slavery
“The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: The Red Dice
“It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.”
Malcolm Gladwell book Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. p. 198
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
29 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)