A Quote by Katarina Witt

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

Katarina Witt

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Katarina Witt
German - Athlete
Born: December 3, 1965

I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me on a silver platter. I've finally gotten rid of the platter.

Sterling Hayden

Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.

Lights

Even if you are born with a silver spoon, you have to work hard. I mean, you could be offered films on a platter, but if you don't get up in the morning and learn your lines, it is not going to work.

Radhika Apte

I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit.

Fabio Lanzoni

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Alicia Keys

You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

Gordon Wu

We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires.

Fred Upton

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Terry Orlick

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I never had any forefathers. I was never handed anything on a silver platter.

Raj Kundra

I didn't have everything served to me on a silver platter during my career; unfair criticism helped me.

Filippo Inzaghi

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Dale Carnegie

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Holly Near

What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

Bill Maher

No one needs to treat you like a star kid in the industry, but you do get pointed at... people assume you get everything on a silver platter, but that's not true.

Prateik Babbar

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