“Hard work has made it easy.That is my secret. That is why I win.”

“Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.”

“Who’s going to work hard for someone who doesn’t win? ~ Jim Ochowicz”

“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”

“There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”

“I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.”