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“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!”

Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”

“The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.”

Chance Virtue Tickets Lottery

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..

“The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.”

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Author:Teddy Thompson

“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.”

May Chance Gains Universal Lottery

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations