Quotes About Chance

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.

The man who said he never had a chance, never took a chance.

You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre.

Es ist dieses Bild, mit dem ich lebe, sagte Dahlem, dieser vor den Flammen in den Tod springende Mann. Das Etui erinnert mich nicht nur an mein gerettetes Leben, sondern auch an den Tod des anderen. Der Splitter ist der blinde, sinnlose Zufall Leben.

In other words, if there is to be any chance at all of success, there is only one way to strive for decency, reason, responsibility, sincerity, civility, and tolerance, and that is decently, reasonably, responsibly, sincerely, civilly, and tolerantly.

Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.

Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she would try and hitch a lift on the wheel, too, as soon as she possibly could. She must already have been thinking out how. But she couldn't have guessed how soon her chance would come.

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

if you watch trillions of things, you will often see one-in-a-million coincidences.

Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.

Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren't planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

The movie business is a big gamble.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.