N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

I've certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with 'Battlestar'... I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

I got a lot of opportunities and I was able to make the best of them.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.

One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.