Lottery Ticket Quotes

• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Tickets

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• Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Thinking, Luck, Tickets

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• Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Winning, Tickets, Lottery

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• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Tickets, Desperation, Lottery

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• Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Firsts, Tickets, Birth

  Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Soul

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• I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Dollars

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• Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Money, Math

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• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

  Twyla Tharp

  Reading, Hero, Creativity

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Odds

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

  Steven Rattner

  Running, Winning, Venture

  "A Sneaky Way to Deregulate" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 3, 2013.

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

  Bill Cosby

  Winning, Lightning, Tickets

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• It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Gambling, Riches, Tickets

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459

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• Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

  Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

  Funny, Marriage, Tears

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• Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

  Eva Braun

  Two, Feelings, Would Be

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• When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

  Robert Haugen

  Games, Tickets, Distribution

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.

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• If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Retirement, Government, Ideas

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• I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hope, Doors, Feelings

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

  Peter Lynch

  Keys, Important, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Symphony, Long, Pieces

  Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

  Emily Giffin

  Struggle, Hard Work, Luck

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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