David Sarnoff Quotes

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.

I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

Work alone is noble.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I earn everything that I get.

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

My mother worked in a cookie factory. My father worked in a factory. So anyone that dares begrudge what I have, just better get off their duff and do something about it to do something for themselves as well as their country. I feel that I have a perfect right to spend my money the way I damn please.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Every man is the son of his own works.

I work hard and support myself.

I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, personal freedom, less government and fewer taxes. But I also believe in compassion, inclusion, and helping those who want to help themselves.