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Abraham Lincoln approached Productivity from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Productivity without inheriting broken mental models.
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed."
"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
"Work, work, work, is the main thing."
"You are not lazy, and still you are an idler. I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any one day."
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
"No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers."
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
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