Include some material in your business plan about your competition. Become obsessed by your competition. You may think you have none, but you do.
Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
You must find out who you are and proceed on the basis of that knowledge.
We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
We have a job. A job! Our reward after years of education! We worked hard in our youth in order to work hard again in our adulthood. A job! The summit of our lives!
No! Be weak! Give up! You can’t do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.
If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!
Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.
The moon and the stars are soothing constants in an idler’s life.
I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable...
Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
Der Müßiggänger hat den Wunsch, ständig ein gutes Leben zu haben, nicht nur an Samstagabenden.
The lie-in—by which I mean lying in bed awake—is not a selfish indulgence but an essential tool for any student of the art of living, which is what the idler really is. Lying in bed doing nothing is n...
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.
Better to have lots of time than lots of money in those early years. There will be time later for earning.
There is a lot to enjoy in life if you make the effort to go out there and drink it in.
The job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top.
Martin also reveals the many scientific studies that have shown the benefits of long sleeping and napping to our health and happiness, and also shows how major disasters such as Chernobyl, and smaller...
Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.