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Quotes About Hustle

for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
~ Evelyn Waugh
People were mulling around, skittering about like moths on a lightbulb. Then
~ Faye Kellerman
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I was working at Nordstrom Rack, Borders Books, and I was cleaning yachts on the weekends for private parties and being a busboy. I had to break down the tables and roll the forks up in napkins. And I was still doing standup.
~ Jo Koy
Traffic snarls or jet life doesn't make a city fast.
~ Varun Sharma
To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money.
~ Zaytoven
The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality.
~ Michael Chabon
Los Angeles: there was no rush hour because every hour was rush hour.
~ Michael Connelly
Money never sleeps, pal
~ Michael Douglas
I've been the type to just get up and go or I'm finding something to do, I'm on some type of grind every single day.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
All around us, Karachi kept moving
~ Kamila Shamsie
I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
~ Verite
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
~ Jidenna
Make no mistake - LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified.
~ Rowan Ricardo Phillips
I most definitely respect Jay Z hustle and everything he built. He's a businessman first and I think he respects my hustle.
~ Yo Gotti
I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.
~ Iris Apfel
Somewhere along the way, they adopted this dangerous and debilitating belief system: I am what I accomplish and how well I accomplish it. Please. Perform. Perfect. Prove. Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will people think? Perfectionism is a hustle.
~ Brene Brown
When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. there is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it is about. Nobody directs the energy.
~ Henry Miller
For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.
~ Adam Scott
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
~ Patricia Marx
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
~ Griffin Dunne
Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.
~ Brigitte Nielsen
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
~ O. Henry
New York can be a tad stressful.
~ Aesop Rock