Quotes About Effort

The best thing you can do is just go and have fun with [competition].

There is nothing more perfect than doing your best.

Success is not only in the hand

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Despatch is the soul of business.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.