Simon Cowell Quotes

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

I believe Americans have a strong work ethic.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

Americans want to work. We want to take care of our families. It's in our DNA, the American work ethic.

So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard.

Americans like workers, people who slog. I love working.

My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.

In America, they like to think, 'Do as many things as you can.' That's what I like about being here. 'You're a polymath! We call you multi-hyphenates!' I like the idea you're allowed work as much as you can.

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

A lot of artists need structure.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.