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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. -- J. Paul Getty
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. -- J. Paul Getty
I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much. -- Ken Hensley
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' -- Joey Adams
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. -- Thomas J. Watson
I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them. -- Autre Ne Veut
I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff. -- Joseph Fiennes
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. -- Mary Oliver
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. -- Douglass North
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. -- Bridget Riley
My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was. -- Tom Bodett
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed. -- Judy Chicago
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. -- Chaim Potok
I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations. -- Hampton Sides
It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it. -- Alexis Herman
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.' -- Ryan McGinley
Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. -- Dario Argento
I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet. -- Neil Marshall
Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America. -- Pete Townshend
In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground. -- Ben van Berkel
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me. -- Gavin Hood
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin. -- Stephen Hawking
When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. -- Joe Simon
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is. -- Kenneth Koch
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers. -- Jon Landau
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. -- Laurence J. Peter
Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me. -- Bruce Springsteen
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things. -- Zooey Deschanel
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy. -- James L. Barksdale
Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early from work kill people -- Larry the Cable Guy
Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. -- Daphne Zuniga
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. -- Alasdair Gray
I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil. -- John D. Rockefeller
Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it. -- T. Boone Pickens
I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age. -- James Nesbitt
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. -- George Allen, Sr.
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. -- George Allen, Sr.
I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to. -- Bob Thaves
I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in. -- Merrill Markoe
Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards. -- W. H. Auden
You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That's the only secret. -- Philip Glass
Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. -- Ken Robinson
I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera. -- Jonathan Ke Quan
I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys. -- Queen Latifah
I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work. -- Johnny Mathis
In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early. -- Phil Keoghan
When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work. -- David Green
The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff. -- Rush Limbaugh
What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son. -- Ben Stein
I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events. -- Kara Walker
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved. -- Janice Dickinson
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. -- Peter Greenaway
If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil. -- J. Paul Getty
I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. -- Elizabeth Bowen
[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance". -- Nan Goldin
To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me! -- Artie Lange
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. -- Claire Wolfe
In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves. -- Jon Oringer
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself. -- Olivia Palermo
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210. -- Jennie Garth
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence. -- Al Jarreau
All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since. -- Jeremy Piven
I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse. -- Michael Caine
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work. -- Hale Irwin
The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge. -- Azim Premji
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. -- Morgan Freeman
In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later. -- William Gibson
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A. -- Christopher Hampton
I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.' -- Jennie Garth
I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together. -- George Ezra
I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me. -- Miley Cyrus
I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction. -- Rachael Yamagata
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas. -- Julius Genachowski
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas. -- Julius Genachowski
The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns. -- James H. Austin
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business. -- Ernie Banks
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows? -- Monica Seles
Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work. -- Charles Dickens
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. -- Pamela Erens
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write. -- David Mamet
It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her. -- Guy Ritchie
I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work. -- Werner Herzog
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. -- Meryl Streep
We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work. -- Dan Levitan
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. -- Sean Parker
I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series. -- Portia de Rossi
I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late. -- Eric Benet
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict -- Bridget Riley
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while. -- David Eddings
Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end. -- Jen Lancaster
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed. -- Judy Chicago
An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision. -- Robert Genn
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us. -- Nathan Wolfe
You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard. -- Ivan Glasenberg
I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that. -- Nick Woodman
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling. -- May Sarton
I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work. -- Mandy Moore
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. -- Carl Sandburg
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M. -- Alice Sebold
Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep. -- Philip Massinger
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain. -- Ernest Hemingway
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines. -- Peter Buffett
We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun. -- A-Trak
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day. -- Ingrid Newkirk
You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you. -- Andrew Wyeth
People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal. -- Nell Zink
I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums. -- Johnny Cash
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great. -- Ryan McGinley
I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way. -- Joe Bradley
Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense. -- E. J. Hughes

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