Frank Lloyd Wright, architect:

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States:

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

Peter Drucker, father of modern management theory:

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

Jean De La Fontaine, 17th century French poet:

“By the work one knows the workman.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan:

“Screw the money. No money can compensate for being turned into a rat in a cage… We’ve got plenty of slaves. You can identify them because they wear neckties.”