luck

Luck often sides with the able.

The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.

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

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Knowledge perpetuates luck and luck perpetuates knowledge

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.