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There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

You don't just need skills and talent, you also need luck.

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

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.