John Hagel III Quotes

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

When a job, whether it is generally regarded as important or not, falls to my lot to do....it assumes importance immediately as far as I am concerned. I cannot rest until it is completed…whatever service I have succeeded in rendering to the nation is due, mainly, to this attitude and outlook of mine with regard to work

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

If you're going to be the lead, you better be ready to always be working.

I just go out and do my job.

My belief is whether I'm the starter, whether I'm the backup, I'm going to show up the same exact way. I'm going to prepare the same exact way, and I'll always be ready to go.

Here's a message to all the employers out there reading this: if a comedian comes to you having given up comedy and wants a job; don't employ them. They're utterly feckless and incapable of handling any kind of responsibility. Fact.

My priority has always been to do the best possible job in whatever role I'm in.

If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.

I have a job to do, so I'm gonna do it.

I have always had a lot of responsibility, and I have always been committed wherever I have been asked to play.

I will try to do my job to the best of my ability.

I try to work hard, be professional, be fun to work with, and be accountable.

I do what the manager asks of me to the best of my ability. I'm not saying I'm brilliant or saying I'm perfect.

I just try to do my job.