A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I am a grafter.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

I do my job like I breathe.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I like to work and am a focused person.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Our work is never over.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.