Quotes About Opportunity

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Of course it's all luck.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

Champions make their own luck.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

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

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

You have to be ready for luck.