Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.14, Courier Corporation