Quotes About Fortune

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

The only article Lady Fortuna has no control over is your behavior. Good luck.

Thirty-nine percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution, 56 percent will find themselves in the top 10 percent, and 73 percent will spend a year in the top 20 percent.

Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur said

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur

Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.

from the reference point of the winner (and, who does not, and this is key, take the losers into account), a long string of wins will appear to be too extraordinary an occurrence to be explained by luck. Note

our successes depend on randomness).

positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If

Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools—by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category

There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.

just as we tend to underestimate the role of luck in life in general, we tend to overestimate it in games of chance.

This same point can be generalized to life: maximize the serendipity around you.

though we play down the role of chance, especially when it comes to our own discoveries.

separating some people from their fortune would simplify their lives and bring great benefits in the form of healthy stressors.

enjoy our blessings, and try to preserve, by becoming more conservative, what we got by luck.

I may never know if Onassis was skilled or lucky, though I am convinced that his charm opened doors for him

otherwise the odds would be too low to get here just by luck.

Luck favors the prepared

Ainoa asia, jota onnetar ei säätele, on käyttäytymiseni.

try to benefit from rare events, events that do not tend to repeat themselves frequently, but, accordingly, present a large payoff when they occur.