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		What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.
	
	  Rachael Ray Rachael Ray
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		Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.
	
	  Gloria Estefan
			
			
				Miami Sound Machine Gloria Estefan
			
			
				Miami Sound Machine
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		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 Oliver DeMille
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		When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.
	
	  Dakota Fanning Dakota Fanning
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		Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
	
	  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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		You should know how to work hard but also enjoy the work.
	
	  Olena Vitrychenko Olena Vitrychenko
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		The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.
	
	  Barack Obama Barack Obama
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		I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.
	
	  T.I. T.I.
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		Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people work hard, but due to their feelings of unworthiness, they believe that it is inappropriate for them to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide.
	
	  T. Harv Eker T. Harv Eker
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		To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
	
	  Hailee Steinfeld Hailee Steinfeld
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		It feels good, that's the way it should be. But numbers are just numbers and I'm just happy we won. A lot of hard work went into this, a lot of game-planning and a lot of scheming. It's not as easy as it looked.
	
	  Brady Quinn Brady Quinn
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		I’ll always say I think it’s all hard work. There are a few strokes of luck, and the rest has been hard work. But the thing is, if you’re not working hard, you don’t put yourself in the position for the good luck to happen.
	
	  Ken Casey Ken Casey
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		I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.
	
	  Ursula Burns Ursula Burns
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		I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night.
	
	  Andrew Yan Andrew Yan
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		All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.
	
	  Van Jones Van Jones
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		It's cool that people enjoy my work. That's fun for me that people, like going to my movies and enjoy all the hard work that everyone put into it. I think that's the biggest reward, to know that everyone enjoyed the movies with me.
	
	  Dakota Fanning Dakota Fanning