Solomon Quotes

I wanted to be one of the best in the business, whether it was male or female.

When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that. I have to tell you I learned that you can be kind and a hard worker and move up. You don't have to play dirty or do things that you think happens at big corporations.

I seek out good work.

My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.

As a former player, I have a real appreciation for a guy like Aaron Rodgers and how much time he puts into his craft and how good he is doing it.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I'm worth it, then everything should be fine.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’