Bruce Kovner Quotes

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

We work super hard to not have to work

My career could've been anything, I just wasn't that good at other things. I'd say it was fairly easy starting out as I did in LA, meeting some great friends and musicians and landing a record deal. That's where the hard work began though.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

Don't be afraid of hard work.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourself

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

No one knows how hard one works.

Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Let work itself be the ambition.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.