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Quotes On Work Ethic

If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

One should aim to deliver more than what is expected of him.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.