You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.