Paul Hawken Quotes

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

You work really hard on something, and if you're lucky, you get a break.

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

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

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

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

It's not because I'm lucky. I work very hard.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

The harder you work, the luckier you get. I'm a big believer in that.

I never look at it as if any of my successes were given to me through fate. Getting record deals, making the songs I've made, having fans and working with the people I work with aren't chance. I know that dedication and work have gotten me to where I am and will get me to where I wanna go.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

England is a lucky country for me, and fortune comes only with hard work.

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.