Madeleine Albright Quotes

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

I'm working hard since the beginning of my career.

I just try to come in every single day and be professional and work as hard as I can. I feel like you can't replace that.

Up to 30 years old, I was carried by natural talent, combined with a good level of professionalism. But since turning 30, I've gained a desire to sweat in the real sense of the word, to understand where I need to improve. Competitiveness, now, is essential.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.