Jason Calacanis Quotes

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

It's not because I'm lucky. I work very hard.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

I wouldn't attribute everything to luck. I think I am very hardworking, and nothing discounts hard work for anything.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

There's no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!

Effort is grossly underrated.

Talent is long patience.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Everything yields to diligence.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.