Kartik Aaryan Quotes

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

I've never been afraid to fail.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

I'm not afraid of failure.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.