Andrew Carnegie Quotes

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.

Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.

I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that's work ethic. Because, if you demonstrate that your capabilities extend past your current job, they'll probably give you a better job.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

Doing my job well is the best way to campaign.

Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.