Quotes About Outcome

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Luck is the residue of design.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

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

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

In short, luck's always to blame.

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty.

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty.