Top 52 Work Smart Not Hard Quotes
#1. My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.
Joe Teti
#3. 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
#4. Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
Hill Harper
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work; Smart Work becomes Easy Work.
Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.
#12. For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
#13. Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
John C. Maxwell
#14. Hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever
Chiranjit Paul
#15. I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.
Mark Cuban
#16. Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.
Nelly Mazloum
#17. True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's.
Lisa Renee Jones
#18. 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
#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. Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
Elizabeth Smart
#21. 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
#22. Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.
Amy Tan
#23. It doesn't matter how smart you are or aren't, you need to make up in hard work what you lack in experience, skill, intelligence, or innate ability. If your competitor is smarter, more talented, or experienced, you just need to work three or four times as hard. You can still beat them!
Darren Hardy
#24. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.
Tucker Carlson
#25. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.
Ernie J Zelinski
#26. We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined ... We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.
James M. Kouzes
#27. While you're here, work hard, work smart, and keep an open mind. That's all I ask.
Carsen Taite
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
Taeyang
#31. God does not expect us to work hard, he expects us to work smart.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#32. 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
#33. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Work hard and work smart, be passionate about your work, keep learning, and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.
Janaki Krishnan
#38. Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.
Shane Snow
#39. 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
#40. You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well.
Carla Harris
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
Byron Dorgan
#44. 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
#45. I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.
Budd Schulberg
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
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