William Cameron Forbes Quotes

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

Many people do not know how hard I work. There are many days I work more than 18 hours.

I am the hardest working director.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

The true success is to labour.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Hard work, dedication!