A Quote by Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams

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Joey Adams
American - Comedian
January 6, 1911 - December 2, 1999

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

John D. Rockefeller

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

Richard Armour

When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.

Philip Glenister

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Ray Davies

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Dave Brubeck

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

Philip Glass

Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

Jake Arrieta

I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.

Philip Glass

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky

I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!

Steve Martin

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.