Richard Hamming Quotes

To make any endeavor successful, you have to put that time and energy into something and work long hard days. Whether it's on the weekends or at night. You have to be constantly looking to improve things.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

I just keep working.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.