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Quotes About Chance

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.
~ Felix Rohatyn
Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.
~ Venita VanCaspel
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
~ D. B. Sweeney
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
~ Russell Banks
According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.
~ Nick Hancock
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.
~ A. E. Housman
Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.
~ Ayn Rand
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
~ Nancy Pickard
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
~ Arthur Goldberg
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
~ Bob Goodlatte
It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
~ E.B. White, Here Is New York
I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The powerless worship Luck and Fate.
~ Mason Cooley
there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!
~ Johnny Depp
In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.
~ Robert Kuttner
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
~ Francis Bacon
What is luck but something made to run out.
~ Esi Edugyan
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
~ Francois Rabelais
Leave your luck while still winning.
~ Baltasar Gracian
If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
~ Bette Midler
Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.
~ Craig Ferguson