The way to attract good luck is to be reliable in a valuable area. The more you repeatedly deliver value, the more people seek you out for that value. Your reputation is a magnet. Once you become known for something, relevant opportunities come to you with no extra work.

The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from.

You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I’ve...

There’s only one way to the top: hard work.

You have to work a bit harder to offend me because I’m from the home of some of the best racism in the world. I’m a snob when it comes to racism.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very active, but make no mistake: it is very hard work. Strategy often beats sweat.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself and one for helping others

—Lo difícil no es ganar dinero sin más —se lamentaba—. Lo difícil es ganarlo haciendo algo a lo que valga la pena dedicarle la vida.

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

For the next nine months, Sylvia would report on campus trends, politics, tastes, style. It was an honor, but it was grueling. Sylvia was overworked. She had boyfriend problems. She longed for Europe. She broke her leg in a skiing accident. Her best friend, Marcia Brown, had gotten engaged and moved off campus – other...

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What’s most important is that you be awake for it.

We were very impressed by the proposed venues for the equestrian competitions in Hong Kong and the preparatory work there.

By the 10th round we could have half the season’s work done. If we can finish the week well we can be in a great situation.

I don’t like customer service, because I don’t believe the customer should have to pay and help out too.

We haven’t figured that out yet. We’re going to work that out.

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

Without passion, a job is just what it is: a job

It only looks easy to the outsider. So if you want this thing called success, get ready to work hard. It won’t be easy and it isn’t guaranteed. But if you dream big and give it your all, it will be worth it.

I was a little upset. I think Kevin did a great job last year. It was unfortunate it didn’t work out for him this year. But to be able to bring a guy like that back, you have to feel great.

School is learning things you don’t want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn’t know, while working toward a future you don’t know will ever come.

Not everyone who works hard gets to make it in life. But those who work hard with a smart plan always do.

Will work for food. Will work for sex. Will work for the weekend, but I won’t work five consecutive days for it.

For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. Totell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hotturds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if hislivelihood depends on it, if...

This is the final straw. You’d have to be a certifiable lunatic to want to work with that lot.

I wanted to sip my daily Starbucks coffee as I got to work early (no later than 11:00 am), have a late lunch (1:00-4:00), and work late (5:01) every day (except Thursdays and Fridays). I wanted a life so good even Scarface would want to scarf it up.

I walked to work. I paced up and down the bus looking for a seat. Next time I walk to work I’m getting on my treadmill.

As I said to him upstairs, ‘The real work starts now,’

I have been privileged to work for such a forward-looking organization that contributes significantly both to the field of medicine and to the Western Pennsylvania community.

there are lessons to be learned. … We can all work hard.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a good marriage than watch me row against the tide at my own work. It remains that a woman with an incomplete emotional life has herself to blame, while a man with no time...

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires...

Serve one another with great humility.

Generation Y wants more meaningful work and is looking for more give-and-take from their employers. They want a lot of responsibilities and also to do work that is interesting to them.

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.

He kept his head down and slowly worked himself, word by word, back into communion with the other hours, days, years – there was in fact no name for this particular unit of time – that together formed a continuum of unawareness that was as close to transcendence ash e would come. He was working...

What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?

This is just too hot, too primitive, too uncomfortable for the patients and too hard to work in for the medical people.

I’d probably have to work at some job, … I have always worked. To not have a job and be the first lady, that is a bit much to ask. If we did it that way, then all we would get is wealthy people in office.