Luck Quotes

• You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!

  

  Dana Carvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Money

• Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Prefer

• Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Fall
  • Luck
  • Lucky

• It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we did not run over an IED. And to dishonor our service by saying we're not worthy of being called combat veterans is insulting to the majority of men and women who serve their country honorably.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

  

  Brian Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Famous

• Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• You are either lucky in this department or you aren't-and you cannot make your own luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Luck

• I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Support
  • Troops
  • Playboy

• I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • Good
  • Luck

• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Luck

• When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Trust
  • Luck

• I think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They're so fun to be around, so that's probably the best part about working there.

  

  Bradley Steven Perry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

  

  James Norton
  • People
  • Good
  • Courage

• You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • People
  • Life
  • Soul

• Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Luck

• There's a lot of bunch finishes, which are hectic and kind of dangerous; you need a lot of luck to win those.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Luck

• If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Bad
  • Luck

• The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Risk

• Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • She
  • Way
  • Winning

• Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Creativity

• I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Help

• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Quality

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