I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.
Denzel WashingtonI don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.
Angelina JolieAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand RussellI want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.
Robert KiyosakiMost people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George CarlinIf I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.
Robert KiyosakiI don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Adam SandlerI’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.
Taylor SwiftI saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert OppenheimerA young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LewisWell, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.
Kamala HarrisIt behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore RooseveltI go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. MenckenThe one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.
Michelle ObamaYou don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim RohnEngineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert HooverTo have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David ThoreauThe sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
Narendra ModiActors 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.
Clint EastwoodI don’t know about other people, but I love to work.
Kevin HartIt sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
Nipsey HussleWhen I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
Taylor SwiftI didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.
Kevin HartAbility will never catch up with the demand for it.
ConfuciusI’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
Kamala HarrisThe most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. RockefellerHe only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.
Taylor SwiftWhen Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George CarlinA man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert HubbardWork harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim RohnWhen you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.
Lady GagaI 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.
Alice WalkerI 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.
Mr. TAn 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.
Anthony BourdainTeaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
Bill GatesQuality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry FordThere are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.
Jocko WillinkWhen I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.
Jocko WillinkMy strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
Richard M. NixonFor a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.
Alice MunroWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiI was drafted during the Korean War.
Clint EastwoodPlumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.
Robert GreeneWhatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. RockefellerIn the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.
Noam ChomskyYou can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon HillI wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
Conor McGregorThe right-wingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.
Jordan PetersonYour life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.
Robert GreeneIt’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.
Paul AusterI like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.
Tom BradyBy working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert FrostFor 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.
Richard BransonIf I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack ObamaI think you’re working and learning until you die.
J. K. RowlingPeople’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
Narendra Modi