Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I am definitively qualitative about work.

I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.

I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

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

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

For me, call me what you want, as long as I'm working.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

I think it's great in any job to be doing well and doing it the best that you can, so that's pretty great. But I wouldn't call myself a celebrity in any way. I'm just doing my job.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

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

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.

The weird thing is that, with actors, filmmakers and directors, it doesn't really matter if it's Robert Downey Jr., who's one of the biggest stars in the world, when you start to work, he's a hardworking actor. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who's a big star and who's an unknown actor from wherever. It's all about the work you do.