I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. [Anonymous]
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. [Margaret Thatcher]
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. [Thomas Jefferson]
I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.[Roman Abramovich]
It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".[Anil Ambani]
Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do... What do I have to do to make it work?'[Erica Baxter]
Property Ladder, because I feel it’s very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can’t be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I’m on screen. It’s quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.[Sarah Beeny]
I've always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.[Alan Bond]
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.[Walter Chrysler]
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.[Winston Churchill]
My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.[Simon Cowell]
I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.[Jim Cramer]
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.[Thomas Edison]
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.[Thomas Edison]
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.[BC Forbes]
