Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Those who work much do not work hard.

Work first, and then rest.

I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.

The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.

I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

We work super hard to not have to work

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.