Top 100 Quotes About Work Smart
#1. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!
Oliver DeMille
#2. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#3. God does not expect us to work hard, he expects us to work smart.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#5. Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.
Susan Wojcicki
#6. Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.
Nando Parrado
#7. Work hard and work smart, be passionate about your work, keep learning, and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.
Janaki Krishnan
#8. My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.
Joe Teti
#10. Work hard,
and you will earn good rewards.
Work smart,
and you will earn great rewards.
Work hard and work smart,
and you will earn extraordinary rewards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#12. Some people have a lot of time, but no money--
It's because they don't work hard enough.
Some people have a lot of money, but no time--
It's because they don't work smart enough.
The most successful people have both.
Bob Sharpe
#13. Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.
Mireille Guiliano
#14. A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.
Charles Hayes
#15. Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work; Smart Work becomes Easy Work.
Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.
#16. Hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever
Chiranjit Paul
#17. Basketball Rule #2 (random text from Dad)
Hustle dig
Grind push
Run fast
Change pivot
Chase pull
Aim shoot
Work smart
Live smarter
Play hard
Practice harder
Kwame Alexander
#18. Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything ... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
Bobbi Brown
#20. You should work smart while working hard, never underestimate the power of increasing efficiency and honing skills periodically to keep them relevant and deliver work efficiently.
Pravin Agarwal
#21. While you're here, work hard, work smart, and keep an open mind. That's all I ask.
Carsen Taite
#22. Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
Hill Harper
#23. At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.
Gemma Chan
#24. A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
Taeyang
#25. I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.
Amy Smart
#26. My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
Eric Allin Cornell
#27. I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#28. Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents
doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem ...
Lewis Black
#29. We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools ... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'
David Perkins
#30. Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Chet Baker
#31. I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
April Bowlby
#32. In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
Ben Horowitz
#33. And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.
Terry Matthews
#34. What else am I missing here? What's in this for you?" "You." Ben was honest for once, and it seemed to work, making Maddox stop mid-laugh and wiping the smart-ass expression off his face. "You're in it for me. I don't do relationships, you're right. But I do you. And I want to try this with you.
Annabeth Albert
#35. Building smart processes to streamline the workflow can make the work easier and the results more reliable, which keeps my head above water and my clients happy.
Mark Mason
#36. I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
Robert Lopez
#37. We are designed to be smart people our entire lives. The brain is supposed to work well until our last breath.
David Perlmutter
#38. I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
Dolly Parton
#39. If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.
Christian Bale
#40. You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
Mike Rowe
#42. No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.
David G. Myers
#43. Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, 'That doesn't work, now I want a smart woman.' Then you get a smart woman and you go, 'No, that doesn't work.' So it's just killing me right now.
Gerard Butler
#44. You work hard because you're smart and you know you can do it, don't let some idiot bully you into being less than you are.
Justin Robinson
#45. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
Mark Zuckerberg
#46. Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with - a very smart, very charismatic man.
Christopher McDonald
#47. I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.
James Brolin
#48. Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.
Shane Snow
#49. If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.
Cheri Bustos
#50. I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
Andres Serrano
#51. I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard.
Don't call me lucky.
Call me a badas.
Shonda Rhimes
#52. For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.
Michael Crichton
#55. God is unveiling women around the world. He always has and continues to work through women and girls, who are half of His church. They are, like men and boys, His image bearers. They are also, like men and boys, gifted, empowered, smart, and anointed.
Jen Hatmaker
#56. He was a smart enough guy to get that she was the one for him. He was also smart enough to know that he was going to have to work his ass off for it.
Jill Shalvis
#57. You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well.
Carla Harris
#58. In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Elizabeth McGovern
#59. You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.
George Stroumboulopoulos
#60. I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.
David Lindsay-Abaire
#61. Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
Byron Dorgan
#62. If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
Molly Crabapple
#63. I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!
Philippe Kahn
#64. I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
Leonard Susskind
#65. The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.
Frank Zappa
#66. Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.
Jordyn Wieber
#67. I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
Ram Shriram
#68. But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
Paul Krugman
#69. I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#70. The best investors are visionaries - they look beyond the present.
By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#71. Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
Mel Brooks
#72. You can attract the best smart creatives with factors beyond money: the great things they can do, the people they'll work with, the responsibility and opportunities they'll be given, the inspiring company culture and values, and yes, maybe even free food and happy dogs sitting desk-side.
Eric Schmidt
#73. I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don't call me lucky. Call me a badass.
Shonda Rhimes
#74. The course made me think a bit, you know. That we're smart enough to get out of here. We're just too stupid to work out a way.
Cath Crowley
#75. I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard.
Mark W. Boyer
#76. I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the smart one. Turns out she was the gold digger, not me.
Tim Hudson
#77. Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.
Anne Holm
#78. Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve Wozniak
#79. Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.
Budd Schulberg
#80. You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
Malcolm Gladwell
#81. Luchese lit his cigar and pushed up the sleeves of his jacket as if preparing for work. Bring it on, fuckface, James thought. It was hard to take seriously a man that wasn't smart enough to just take the damn jacket off.
Genevieve Dewey
#82. The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.
Tucker Max
#83. I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great things anyway - and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go.
Tucker Max
#84. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
Scott Rudin
#85. To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.
Jimmy Wales
#86. Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#88. I haven't been quite as smart about living as I have been about working. At work, everything was about precision and efficiency, while in my life everything has been about daydreaming, longing, and confusion.
Laura Restrepo
#89. Young children who constantly hear "person" praise ("you're so smart to do this well") as opposed to "task" praise ("you did that well") are more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed rather than expandable with hard work.
Ken Bain
#90. I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
Ted Danson
#91. I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
Michael Hintze
#92. The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.
Bill Smith
#93. It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
Chuck Palahniuk
#94. It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.
Marissa Mayer
#95. I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.
Bill Russell
#96. Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing ...
They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.
Charlie Huston
#97. Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
Emeli Sande
#98. It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.
John Krasinski
#99. Being a rocket scientist isn't all that smart when you could work in finance.
A.D. Aliwat
#100. Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.
Dave Hickey
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