I don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

When 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.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

I focus on my own job.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

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 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 got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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

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.

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.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Whatever 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.

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.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

We 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.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

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

When 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.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

It 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.

I 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.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I like to work and am a focused person.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

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.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

For 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.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I do my job like I breathe.

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