Quotes About Success

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

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

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

The champion makes his own luck.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

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

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

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

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

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 recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.