John C. Maxwell Quotes

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

Those who work much do not work hard.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.

I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.