Hard Work Quotes - Page 27

• You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

  Ben Affleck

  Library, Fifty, Bucks

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• It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

  Anil Ambani

  Dream, Father, Ambition

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• Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'

  Erica Packer

  Passion, Opportunity, Preparation

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• The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky, I just fell into it. I got discovered at a train station when I'd just turned 15, I was working full-time by 16, moved overseas and then just kept at it and made it a life. Whereas with my music, I've really struggled through and worked hard, learnt how to write and I've kept developing that.

  Erica Packer

  Funny, Writing, Lucky

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• Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Christianity, Results

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• I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

  Simon Cowell

  Success, Good Luck, Car

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• My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.

  Simon Cowell

  Life, Money, Thinking

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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  Sam Donaldson

  Success, Congratulations, Mean

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• I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Focus, Insulting, Criticism

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• The key to longevity is to keep doing what you do better than anyone else. We work real hard at that. It's about getting your message out to the consumer. It's about getting their trust, but also getting them excited, again and again. My clothes.. the clothes we make for the runway.. aren't concepts. They go into stores. Our stores. Thankfully, we have lots of them.

  Ralph Lauren

  Real, Keys, Clothes

  "That look of Ralph Lauren" by Hal Rubenstein, www.cnn.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Here at work, obviously, I make the most money of anyone on the show, so I try to be the first one here and the last one to leave. I have the crummiest office. I try to balance things out, spread it around.

  Jay Leno

  Money, Office, Balance

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• When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

  "One-On-One With Michelle Obama". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2008.

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• If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Commitment, Eight

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• I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Morning, Writing, Commitment

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• Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Work, Optimistic, Clerks

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• When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey, Dubai, Kuwait. When that happens, I'll know enough to retire, but that's never gonna happen. I'm here for forever.

  Sumner Redstone

  Optimistic, Dubai, Turkeys

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• If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.

  Sak?p Sabanc?

  Business, Work, Weekend

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• The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

  Russell Simmons

  Reflection, Community, Everyday

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• When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

  Howard Stern

  Nuts, Hours, Going To Work

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Law, Civilization

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.79, eKitap Projesi

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• I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Self

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.417, Penguin

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• It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Moving, Years, Three

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things in your control can be distilled down to a few principles: Get stronger in the right rep ranges, eat appropriately, commit to the program and consistently work hard at it.

  Daniel Roberts

  Workout, People, Growth

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• A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Night, Men, Doe

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