Les Wexner Quotes

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I just don't stop working.

I just keep working.

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

The common denominator for success is work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

The true success is to labour.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.