Richard Hamming Quotes

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

You dream about getting to be a part of really solid projects.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Do more than dream. Work.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.