Dana Perino Quotes

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

You can't get work without working.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

When a job, whether it is generally regarded as important or not, falls to my lot to do....it assumes importance immediately as far as I am concerned. I cannot rest until it is completed…whatever service I have succeeded in rendering to the nation is due, mainly, to this attitude and outlook of mine with regard to work

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

You get the job done or you don't.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

The most important thing is work.

You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.

I am always on the job.

It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're a big producer on a movie set, or whatever, it's a lot harder to be a pro than be a baby on your crew. That's one work ethic to keep in mind, as one bad apple could give five people a bad day, when that one person could've stepped up their own efforts a little more and not bring anyone else down.

You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.

At the end of the day you go out and do your job and follow your directions.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

When I got to college I finally got a job.

There's no sauce for play like work.