Talib Kweli Quotes

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

We know that you can only achieve certain targets by working.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

Do the day's work.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

Honestly, I just keep my nose to the grindstone and keep working. At the end of the day, that's usually one of those things that's going to get you ahead.