Luck Quotes - Page 37

• Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

  Harrison Ford

  Grace, Credit, Causes

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• Luck always favors the comely.

  Richard Schickel

  Favors

  Richard Schickel (1999). “Matinee idylls: reflections on the movies”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

  Dean Koontz

  Depressing, Clever, Smart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.552, Bantam

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• I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

  Jason Mraz

  Track, Coincidence, Surprise

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• Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Opportunity, Preparation

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• Luck is a dividend of sweat.

  Ray Kroc

  Sweat, Dividends

  1988 Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4 Jul.

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• I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

  Donald Trump

  Children, Wife, Firsts

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• Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

  Todd Rundgren

  Waiting, World, Chance

  Song: Drive, Album: The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

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• I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there is such a great truth in that. You choose how you want to feel about what happens to you. I could have been a miserable failure. I haven't had anybody looking over me, and I've found my own way through optimistic exploration and fire-burning mistakes. I am a very happy person with an extraordinary life, so I must be doing a lot of things right. I really believe when you peel away the layers, the worlds is a beautiful place filled with beautiful people.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Attitude, Mistake

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• To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

  Christopher Jones

  Helping, Divine, Admirable

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• There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

  James M. Loy

  Chess, Opponents, Idiot

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• Luck is for the ill-prepared.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Ill, Prepared

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• I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can sometimes go off on a wrong tangent, and with luck then rewrite it in a better direction. But it means I sometimes surprise myself as I'm going along.

  Christopher Durang

  Writing, Mean, Play

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• Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

  Peter Drucker

  Growth, Prosperity, Built

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing For Results”, p.141, Routledge

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• I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Hard Work, Hard

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• There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

  Joe Zawinul

  Trying, Be Prepared, Prepared

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

  Dashiell Hammett

  Successful, Looks, Sap

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “The Dain Curse: The Glass Key ; and Selected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Teaching, College, Men

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• In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Successful, Gambling, Hands

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• Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

  James Cook

  Winning, May, Prove

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• If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

  Neal Boortz

  Simple, Perception, Income

  Neal Boortz (2001). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, Taylor Trade Pub

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• Edge also implies what Ben Graham....called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at a price that is substantially less than its value. As Graham noted, the margin of safety 'is available for absorbing the effect of miscalculations or worse than average luck.' ...Graham expands, "The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price."

  Michael Mauboussin

  Average, Safety, Assets

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• What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

  James Cook

  Crazy, School, Reality

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• When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

  Diego Maradona

  Hard Work, People, Succeed

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• There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

  Billy Joel

  Couple, Hard Times, Years

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