Bill Bowerman Quotes

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Success is not just about being a hard worker, it is about becoming a smart worker.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

I want to perform well.

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.

I always try to work hard and well if it's possible.

I put a lot of work into what I do.

The more you do, the more you think, the better you get.

Talent is only a part of the work. It is the work that generates the talent.

Any time I've put extra work in, I see results.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

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

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.