Tyler Winklevoss Quotes

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

If there is a national, secular religion in the United States, it is the belief that America is the Land of Opportunity, that we are a meritocracy, that any kid, no matter who they are, or where they come from, can work hard and move up in the world: that their effort matters.

I learned you work for what you get, and I feel sorry for people who haven't had that upbringing.

We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

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.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

Our country has become the land of opportunity to those born without inheritance.

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.