Barack Obama
Politician
"A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams."
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Work Ethic
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Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player
"I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not."
William Baldwin
Actor
"In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving."
Henry Ford II
Businessman
"The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic."
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"You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic."
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"Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing."
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"You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic."
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"I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic."
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"Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."
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"I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics."
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"Work ethics eliminates fear."
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"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."
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"I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty."
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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work."
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"And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working."
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"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure."
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"TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination."
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"So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before."
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"Generally, I am just myself, a crazy John Belushi type. But I'm not comparing myself to him. I think I am against stereotype. Generally Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things."
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"Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write."
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"What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff."
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"I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes."
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"You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools."
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"I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win."
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