David Cassidy Quotes

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I work hard and support myself.

Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think. It's a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work - it's on you to make it work, and no one else.

When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all the lessons I learned.

Sometimes I'm dealing with so much business, and my mind will be so stressed, that I'll go a week without writing... But the benefit of doing everything yourself is that you get a major payoff.

Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

I don't take vacations.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.