John Boehner Quotes

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

My whole life is my work.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.

You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

I don't look like Hollywood Guy. I'm a regular guy.

I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.

I just try to be a regular dude.

It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

My husband is a high-level executive at one of the largest media companies on the planet. He leads a worldwide team of more people than I can keep track of. He worked his way up from an assistant with drive and determination.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29

Success and rest don't sleep together.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.