Sam Donaldson Quotes

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

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.

I'm going to do my job and I don't care if I'm not friends with anybody. I don't need to be best friends with all my co-workers to do a good job.

Really do a job and do it well.

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."

It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

There's part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.

I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

I am always on the job.

The right man can make a good job out of any job.