“I am not smarter than anybody else but I can out work you – and my key to success for you, or anybody else is make sure you are the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.”

“I always tried to be the first one in in the morning and the last one to leave at night, take the fewest vacations and the least time away from the desk to go to the bathroom or have lunch.”

Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“… remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“I was thinking to myself out there — well, you wouldn't think you're anybody else, would you?”

Lee Evans (1964) English stand-up comedian and actor

“I have something to offer, and through which you can realize something, realize the essence of this life. Even if you are a billionaire, you have to have one thing going for you, and that’s life. That is a key ingredient. You don’t have life going for you, you can have everything else going for you, and it won't make any difference.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

“If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are
happy with your own work first.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Has that line ever worked for anyone?”
“I’m not feeding you lines. I mean every word.”
…
“Day One of my life was the day I met you.”
“Okay, that’s a winner. You can put it in.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”

August Wilson (1945–2005) American playwright