Tadanobu Asano Quotes

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

Nobody works harder than American workers. We are the hardest working people in the world.

The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

Americans want to work. We want to take care of our families. It's in our DNA, the American work ethic.

Americans like workers, people who slog. I love working.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

I have six jobs.

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

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.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.