B. C. Forbes Quotes

I think it's important to do great work.

I want to perform well.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

I always try to work hard and well if it's possible.

Really do a job and do it well.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

I want good work.

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

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

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I seek out good work.