J. B. Smoove Quotes

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

Everybody notices if you're the last one in in the morning and the first one to go in the evening. Always remember that as an employee.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

Any President who performs his duties diligently has no time for leisure.

Nobody works harder than American workers. We are the hardest working people in the world.

We have lost the old love of work.

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

Our philosophy here, guys, is we're going to work as long as we have to to get the work done. I'm not one that wants the coaches to compete to see who can get in the earliest, who stays the latest, who passes themselves on the way into work in the morning.

Indian actors are afraid to go and work abroad because people are very professional over there. In India, we have become very lazy. Everything happens slowly, and as per God's will. A 9 A.M. call time means we start working at whatever time we wish.

No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.