Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

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

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.