Garson Kanin Quotes

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

I'm a professional, and I have to always do my job.

I just come in and work and do what is required of me to do, and do it professionally.

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.

I just like doing my job.

If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

I'm doing my job. I'm doing what's expected out of me, and I'm proud of the way I've been able to perform and contribute.

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.

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.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.