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Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
~~ Walter Chrysler ~~ (1875 - 1940)

Not true at all. If you assign a hard job to a lazy man, you are most likely to hear a perfect excuse as to why the job couldn’t be done because the easiest thing for the lazy person to do will be to invent a perfect excuse rather than find an easy way to do the job. Once in a while a lazy man may be able to find an easy way of doing a hard job but that will be the exception rather than the rule.

I would rather assign a hard job to a dependable, intelligent and hard working person who will spend his time finding ways to get the job done rather than thinking of excuses as to why it couldn’t be done. As you might have noticed at your work, most bosses follow the same rule: Whenever there is an urgent job to be done, they always assign it to the most dependable and hard working person. And rightly so.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
~~ Walter Chrysler ~~ (1875 - 1940)

In my view, this quote is only partially true. First of all, I don’t think there is such a thing as ’secret’ to success. Enthusiasm is definitely a required trait to succeed at anything but enthusiasm alone won’t cut it. To succeed, one definitely needs to set a goal or at the minimum a general direction, a plan to attain that goal and work enthusiastically towards it.

While working towards that goal, one needs to continually check and analyze if one is making any progress towards that goal or not. If not then why not; what problems or hurdles are blocking the progress towards success and find ways, means and solutions to resolve those problems and or hurdles.

Of course if you are enthusiastic about your goal, you’ll spend time and energy to find solutions and try to succeed. And if you are not enthusiastic about your goal, you’ll abandon the goal as soon as you start facing problems. That’s what happens to most of us anyways; we quickly give up! :-)