Paul Guilfoyle Quotes

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.

If you need things, you work harder to get them.

If you keep doing something you are good at, it's going to get you by.