Quotes About Achievement

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

The champion makes his own luck.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

Luck is created by the prepared.

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.

It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

How would you complete with people who are more talented, more popular, who get better training, better mentoring and who get their share of luck, without some luck?

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.