Quincy Jones Quotes

I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.

I've been doing extra work but I always do. I want to feel at my best and I want to be ready when the gaffer gives me the chance.

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

I got incredibly lucky, and you have to be if you want to be quite successful.

Every time I have stepped up a level, I wasn't expecting it to happen, but once it did, I just made sure I worked as hard as I possibly could to stay there.

My journey has been up and down a little bit. Everything that has to do with success for me has sort of become a shock to me. You work so hard, you work so hard, and it happens; you're like, 'What? Wait, it's happening to me?'

Life is full of surprises. We've seen on the NBA court a lot of surprises. You never know what's going to happen if we play smart, if we play hard, if we play together.

There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up... But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

I always thought it's not that the greatest players in the world come from New York. It's just the guys who shouldn't have made it, they came from New York. That's what makes New York special.

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

If you got the talent and the drive, there are ways to get noticed.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Hard work will always bring opportunities

I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.

You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.