Dhirubhai Ambani Quotes

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

Effort is grossly underrated.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

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

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

It feels like all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.