Quotes About Success

I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent.

All the money I have, I made with my talent.

Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

I think most of my success is my dedication, not my talent.

Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

I'm not trying to be famous, I'm not trying to be the next whatever. I'm just trying to be someone that contributes positivity with my talent.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Genuine talent does shine through but, in my experience, ambition will get you much further than pure talent.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Talent alone doesn't matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, 'Good films are done', 'Talent always survives', there are other factors, too, which are far more important.

For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.

People think it comes easy to us because we are from a family full of musicians, but I feel it's all about talent.

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they're so good, and we're all trying to get the same parts.

When you are an elite talent, you cannot allow anyone that comes into your 'eliteness' and take you down. You have to make them rise to your level.