Luck Quotes - Page 29

• My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

  Mason Cooley

  Merit, Aspiration

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• Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

  Mason Cooley

  Lucky, Assuming

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• There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

  Edmond H. Fischer

  Escaping, Careers, Facts

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• Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

  Adi Da

  Weight, Pushing, Pulling

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

  John le Carre

  Destiny

  "The Mission Song". Book by John le Carre, September 2006.

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• When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Good Luck, Doors

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.186

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• A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Chance, Constant, Inconstancy

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• Leave your luck while still winning.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Winning, Advice, Stills

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

  William J. Bernstein

  Skills, Patterns, Investing

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Successful, Knowing, Investing

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.236, Macmillan

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• Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

  Ronald Ross

  Wall, Skills, Investing

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• John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

  Jay Leno

  Good Luck, President, Hey

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• Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  B. C. Forbes

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

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• A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

  Publilius Syrus

  Good Luck, Pieces, Nobody Knows

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• There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Skills, Chance

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• Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.

  Fred Singer

  Good Luck, Feet, Astrology

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• Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Business Success, Matter, Life Is

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• If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Proud, Ifs, Lucky

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• Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

  Livy

  Men, Fortune, Disposition

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 42,

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• Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

  Henry George Bohn

  Good Luck, Long, Arms

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.364

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• ... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Knowing, Progress, Sake

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• I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Secret, Sucess, Talent

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• though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Destiny, Mud, Wheels

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.79

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