Quotes About Luck

Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software.

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky — but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

Rarely is success an accident, but when it is, rarely does it last.

It's no mystery, it isn't luck. Success is a result of your obedience to specific principles, rules and laws

The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

I can say opportunity is the time, if you have it, you can get anything

A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck.

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

Ability and luck makes success happen, no matter what the circumstances are.

Luck is a point where hard work meets the opportunity

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.