V. S. Pritchett Quotes

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

You've got to be the hardest-working guy.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

The common denominator for success is work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

The true success is to labour.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.