It is not easy being the hardest-working man in subway show business.

So is he the hardest-working man in literature right now?

It's not for nothing that James Brown called himself "the hardest-working man in show business"; he was.

He calls his father the hardest-working man in America.

Yet you never expected the hardest-working man in basketball to be told he was not useful enough, that his grit and perseverance were tapped out.

As usual, the hardest-working man in it said it best.

He just might be the hardest-working man in cabaret.

What is next for the hardest-working deceased man in show business?

James Brown used to be called the hardest-working man in show business, but he ain't got nothing on Gates.

When he called himself "the hardest-working man in show business," the emphasis was on "working" and "business."