Quotes About Diligence

For me, whatever I do, I believe, I must do it seriously and invest a lot of time to understand and learn.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

Your mind and soul must be completely involved in your work all the time. This is how you will achieve success.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

I know there are a lot of others who are willing to take shortcuts for the sake of money, but when I see that... I get real irritated. I hate it.

Italians work hard physically and tactically.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

It is always better to earn things than to be given them.

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

You can work long, you can work hard, you can work smart, but at Amazon you can't choose two out of three.

The only 'unseemly' thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.

When we charge headlong into big decisions, it may be because we don't want to know the answers that will emerge from doing due diligence. We know that fact-finding might lead us away from what we think we want.

I can safely say that I've never done anything meaningful in my life that wasn't hard and that did not take time. Integrity is a big one—the perception of a lack of it, or even of a tendency to cut corners, creates instant wariness.