Andrew Cherng Quotes

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

I keep working hard day in and day out. When I get a chance to play, I try to produce the best I can.