Taylor Swift Quotes

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

If you could do 'Moving Too Fast' and 'Nobody Needs To Know' really, really well, you kind of knew you would make it someday, somehow!

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

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.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

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.

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

If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are going to follow, and you can go in there and run the show.

No magic wands have been waved in my direction; I didn't win some kind of lottery to land a spot at one of the biggest clubs in the world.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

One of the things that is great about this country is that we're a meritocracy. Aspirational, hard-working people who want to come here - and who have the talent and skills to contribute to our economy and society - are very welcome.

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

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.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.