I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.
Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
