Jay-Z Quotes

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

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

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.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

The common denominator for success is work.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

The true success is to labour.

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

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

I know only one way: work hard.

There's no alternative to hard work.