Tamara Ecclestone Quotes

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

After a point, it doesn't matter where you come from. There are many star kids who haven't done well in the industry and rank newcomers who have done amazingly well.

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.

I definitely think if you're born into the industry, you get easier access, but that's about it. I have never denied that, but after that, only talent and hard work sustains you.

You really have to prove yourself and prove your worth. I didn't come from family that had been here for generations and had all these connections.

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own..