Thomas Peterffy Quotes

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

I have a good work ethic.

I grew up very disciplined and doing what I had to do.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

My childhood was all about discipline, hard work and training.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

For the progress of the nation, what is needed is discipline.

Different as they may be from my parents' generation, today's new Americans still bring with them the same old fashioned family values: discipline, a sense of responsibility, an eagerness to work—to achieve ...

I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.

As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

The only thing I can control is working as hard as I possibly can to do a good job and make people right on the opportunities that they've given me.

I've been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.

I love taking the new ball, but you've got to earn that right.