Vincent Kompany Quotes

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

I really feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.