Joseph Roux Quotes

Talent doesn't always equal success.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

If you've got the talent it'll shine through.

Can't win without talent, you know.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I was a big talent.

People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.

In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

When you're talented, you're talented.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

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.

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

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

Merit should count more than academic background.

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.