William E. Simon Quotes

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

I just think of myself as a hard-working person who loves my job.

I don't need an Emmy to tell me to go to work. I've been working.

I have such pride in my job.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day and do the best that I can do.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.