Hustle Quotes - Page 6

• The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Heart, Commitment, Media

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• (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Powerful, Practice

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• Writing is hustling of another kind.

  John Rechy

  Writing, Kind

  "'I'm a Writer Who Hustled, Not a Hustler Who Wrote': An Interview With John Rechy". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. December 9, 2013.

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• What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Years, Giving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Teaching writing is a hustle.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Teaching, Writing, Teaching Writing

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• Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

  Paul Goodman

  Reality, Thinking, Advice

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

  Will Smith

  Morning, Creating, Wake Up

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

  O. Henry

  Love, Girl, Heart

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.408, Delphi Classics

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• We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

  Sarah

  Thinking, Ironic, Borders

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• In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

  Kid Cudi

  New York, America, People

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• I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.

  Ice T

  Cat, Winning, Games

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

  Michael Jai White

  Names, People, Monkeys

  "Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders: The Movieline Interview". Interview with S.T.Vanairsdale, movieline.com. October 14, 2009.

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• As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

  Mark Cuban

  Attitude, Dad, School

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Rap was slowly becoming one of my hustles, but it wasn't my main hustle. But I come from a family of hustlers, so once I figured the hustle out and mastered it, I took it to my brothers like... "we can flip this just like we flip anything else"... and they were with it but also sort of slow to come all the way on board.

  Yo Gotti

  Brother, Rap, Becoming One

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• Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

  John Darnielle

  Order, Mail, Good Living

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• A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Writing, Men, Years

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• Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fleeting, World, Lasts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.44, Ballantine Books

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• New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Home, Office Work

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.38, Booklassic

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• When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Unique, Louisiana, Culture

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• When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Night, Finding Yourself, Doing You

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• His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

  Curtis Mayfield

  Men, Mind, He Man

  Song: Superfly

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• I am tired of hustling.

  Alan Sugar

  Tired

  "Alan Sugar - the lord of all he surveys". Interview with Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  Yelawolf

  Boys, Dope, Class

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• You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

  Jack London

  Men, Two, Sunrise

  Jack London (2004). “The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories: 100th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

  Charles Bukowski

  Rose, Born, Avenues

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.21, Canongate Books

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