"To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman."
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"I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?"
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"Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky."
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"Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity."
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"To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill."
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"At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future."
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"All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause."
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"People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation."
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"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
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"For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood."
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"Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players."
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"I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate."
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"Luck is not a business model."
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"Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime."
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"Art depends on luck and talent."
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"Be grateful for luck."
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"To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck."
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"Luck is for the ill-prepared."
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"Luck has nothing to do with it."
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"Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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