Samuel Smiles Quotes

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I believe in making your own opportunity.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

I knew I'd get an opportunity, and it's up to me to make the most of it whether I got drafted or not. If you can play, you'll get to play, regardless of that.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn't go around the rock, I'd find a way to go over it or under it or through it.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

I have always liked a challenge.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.