Learn how to be loyal and encourage loyalty in others you work with. Always arrive early and be consistently reliable. Loyalty and timeliness, along with enthusiasm, industriousness, and diligence, are the building blocks of a successful career. Be a loyal partner, collaborator, employer, boss, or employee, and expect the same in return from others. Part of loyalty is being on time. In my experience, there is no such thing as arriving on time. You are either early or you are late. Strive to always be early. I can’t stress this point enough. As Woody Allen famously said: showing up is 80 percent of life. Show up, early.