Success is achieved in inches, not miles.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.
First of all, you never retire. At least I don't retire.
I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.
No great thing happens suddenly.
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.
I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.
We must also remember that our work is not done.
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.
I am constantly working.
Real success comes in small portions day by day.
People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.
I've got to keep on working, keep on grinding, and keep on going out there to get better.
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.
I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.
I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.
