David Eddings Quotes

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days like that as an entrepreneur. If you don't do the work you need to, nothing happens that needs to. It's that simple.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

When the time comes to work, I work.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I have a strong work ethic.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

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

Do the day's work.

I love industry and abhor severity

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

I have a good work ethic.

I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

First off, you always gotta get your work done.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

My work ethic is, I think, from my farm life.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

I can do what I want, when I want. I want to go to this place, I pick up and go. It's nice. I've just never been inclined to do anything that's too crazy. But I still have to work, you know. Some days I don't feel like going to the studio. But I still have to.

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.