Hustle quotes

Hustle

120 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Tina Brown
Tina Brown Editor and Author

"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling"

Robert Downey, Jr.
Robert Downey, Jr. Actor, Producer

"With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily."

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Pancho Barnes Aviator
Hustle

"We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Hustle

"I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Hustle

"If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way."

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
Hustle

"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot."

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Brené Brown Researcher, author, speaker
Hustle

"Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
Hustle

"I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that."

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
Hustle

"I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Hustle

"TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
Hustle

"The guy who's willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball."

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