Russell H. Conwell Quotes

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.

You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.

Whatever I turn my hand to, I put in the effort to be the best.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

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

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

I think it's important to do great work.

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.