Who Said This

[hiflier]

I once heard or read a statement about life that went something like this. The world is made up of two sorts of people. Those who spend their lives moving objects over the surface of the earth, and those who supervise the former. The latter invariably earn more than the former. Can anyone enlighten me as to the originator of this?

[Mamyalynne]

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.


Indira Gandhi

[Mamyalynne]

I know that's not the one you're after, there have been many variations on the same theme.

[Old_Geezer]

Variations of common knowledge I expect.

There are two types of person on this world. Those that can interpolate from incomplete information

[Jonathan-Joe]

Bertram Russell 1932 http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

[jno]

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
- Robert Benchley

[Hopkirk]

I heard a similar thing about the musician Van Morrison.

Apparently there are two types of people, those that like him and those that have met him.