We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.[La société de la production est seulement productrice, non créatrice.]
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.[Le mythe de la production indéfinie porte en lui la guerre comme la nuée l’orage.]
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.
A creation of importance could be produced only when its author isolates himself.
