Luck Quotes - Page 20

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Fortune favours the audacious.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.