Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise.

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

My father, he was a strong guy, a handsome guy, and a hard worker. I don't believe he ever missed a day of work in his life.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

I definitely want to show that I'm going to be a reliable guy to put in the work.

I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.

I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.

I am a responsible person. I plan a lot. I am disciplined.

I just show up every day.

You don't want to be the weak link or the person who lets other people down.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers.