Edmund Hillary Quotes

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Talent is very hot.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.

If you're good at it, you can win.

Talent is only the starting point.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

Merit should count more than academic background.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

I have a relatively good track record.

Talent will come out.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

Does success, a clean record and experience count for anything in Milwaukee?

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.