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Luck Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 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.
- Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you…
- ...maximize the serendipity around you.
- Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life;…
- Luck is the grand equalizer.
More Luck Quotes
- Sometimes I still can't believe my luck. — David Bailey
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there. — Eric Bana
- This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them.… — Amelia Barr
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
- We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. — Milton Berle
- I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night… — Yogi Berra
- I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage. — Halle Berry
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce
- I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. — Conrad Black
- Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. — Eubie Blake
- I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says,… — Orlando Bloom