Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

There is a law of nature which has decreed that a man must work. The diving law declares that only by the sweat of his brow shall a man eat bread. There is a law pretty generally recognized among the advanced nations that every honest labourer is worthy of his hire, but only the conspicuously meritorious deserve special commendation. The stern practice of the world is that a man shall not obtain his food for nothing. Unless he labours in his vocation neither shall he receive wages.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

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.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

If you work, you prosper. If you don’t, you don’t.

All intellectual superiority is the fruit of active effort.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own..

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

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.