Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

If you work hard at something, you can forget everything else.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

You have to work hard at things.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

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.

I know only one way: work hard.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

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

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

I have always stayed focused, working to the fullest.

I've had to work hard my whole life to gain what I have, and that's why I have such a fun time doing those things that nobody likes. Like squatting or hang cleans or getting up in the morning, because I think that I realize in the end what it's going to do for me and what it has done for me in the past.

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.