Harvey Mackay Quotes

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

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.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

The very essence of success is practice.

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.