Chris Gardner Quotes

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

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

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter.

My work is my life.

The thing is that business and success, and how hard it is, doesn't look any different whether you're playing a gig at eleven o'clock at night or you're going to work at nine in the morning at a law firm.

It's a business, but I play the game and I love it every day. That's what I'm going to continue to do.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.

My work means everything to me.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.