47 Quotes by Ed Bradley

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 will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

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.

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

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.