Zhu Rongji Quotes

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

I have a strong work ethic.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

If you find yourself annoyed at his lazy tendencies early on, be wary - because that's one trait of his that won't magically change when he gets a better job or finally joins that gym.

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

I believe if you become complacent about your work, it leads to a downfall.

If you can inculcate in your team that every moment means everything, you can then step back to let them lead.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.