Jean Gabin Quotes

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.

I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

You can give a bunch of opportunities to people, but if they are not ambitious, nothing is going to happen.

If there's an opportunity to go out there and show what I can do, I'm going to do it.

If I get my chance, then I've just got to go out there and take it and help the team to do as well as possible.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

Successful people breed success.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.