Richard Koch Quotes

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

I want to work and be happy.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.

Do I think people who need a good opportunity become harder workers sometimes? Yes.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

We believe in working hard and having fun at the same time. It's a way of life for me, and I feel tremendous.

I don't mind working long hours, because I enjoy doing that. The way to make myself happy is to work long hours.

My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

If you are able to enjoy what you do and doing it the best that you can, then you're on the right track.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

The more I work the happier I am.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.