Andrew Zuckerman Quotes

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

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.

If you work hard, dedicated to what you are doing, and you are disciplined, you will succeed in the end.

I never take a day off.

Besides training, you need to be focused and not shy away from hard work.

We can all pick a goal and find a reason to do it. Then some of us can actually do all the little things over and over again. That's definitely a harder step. Doing it again? That's where it gets to be a beast, when you have to repeat. It's the hardest part of it all.

I'm 32 this year so I'm experienced, I know how it is: sometimes you do very easy things and sometimes you can do crazy things that you don't understand. It's just to be focused on the hard work. For me, that's always the No 1 thing.

I've always worked hard and stayed focused.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Hard work, dedication!

If it's one thing I know well is how to get my grind on.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

The road to success is through commitment.