Share this sentence
— Henry Ford"The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it."
Related information
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!
— Theodore Roosevelt
Next Quote
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
— Walter Kaufmann
Loading recommended content...