As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
“Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else.”
Part 5, section 19 - p.175
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
Prologue, p. 18
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008)
“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals.. that is.. goals that do not inspire them.”
Radio interview with Ted Thomas (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_D3oF5H_A
Book III, Chapter 8, "The Great Sin" http://books.google.com/books?id=OF-YSMKCVwMC&q=%22A+proud+man+is+always+looking+down+on+things+and+people+and+of+course+as+long+as+you+are+looking+down+you+cannot+see+something+that+is+above+you%22&pg=PA124#v=onepage
Mere Christianity (1952)
Source: The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011), Chapter 7 (p. 46)
“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
