Henry Hazlitt Quotes

We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.