“As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.” HappenedLuckBad Luck Author:Bianca Balti
“Donald Trump is a man who just absorbs information and people and experiences. And I've witnessed him firsthand with his five children, his 10 year old son, his wife Melania, who's just an incredible first lady for all of us, amazing. God bless her, we're all very luck to have her leadership, as well. And I've witnessed him with his four adult children and his eight grandchildren. He's a family man.” PeopleMenYearsFirstsWellsChildrenFiveFourWifeInformationSonTrumpAdultsLuckIncrediblesEightBlessGrandchildrenGod BlessFirst LadyFamily ManAdult Children Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"” IfsShouldKindMayCertainEasyGrowthLinesPlansEconomicApproachOkayHarderCrisisLuckEntrepreneurConservativeExtrasRevenueGood LuckUnstableBad LuckEconomic CrisisExtra Time Author:Reid Hoffman
“Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMayTwoEnoughFactsRunningActionWinningGrowthLinesCompanyFocusPlansKeysCircumstancesToughBasesAdversityLuckStrategyProfitWork OutAppropriateCoveredTough TimesBad LuckKey Things Author:Reid Hoffman
“The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, keep people focused on what the key, you know, business wins are, and you know, provide the energy that people always need in order to, you know, to go into battle because, you know, work is hard and go into work and do that well. And provide a good leadership beacon for that. In other words, it's the same thing that makes good leadership in any other time.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWellsHardOrderGamesWinningEnergyPlansKeysBattleLuckFocusedCeoGood LuckBad LuckGood LeaderBeaconsGood LeadershipKey ThingsTurbulent Times Author:Reid Hoffman
“Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.” KindCreaturesLuckStudios Author:Eric Heisserer
“I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.” PeopleWantWishSocialMediaMomLuckSocial MediaWant MeGood LuckExam Author:Boy George
“I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman stands at the post and there is a very real possibility of dying in the next five minutes. Whether he dies or not depends partly on him and partly on luck, and yet he must continue to function.” ThinkingMenWarRealDiesNextFiveMinutesDyingPossibilityDependsAspectFunctionLuckKillingPsychologicalPostsFive Minutes Author:George Friedman
“I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.” PeopleDealsStudentsMetsMy FriendsLuckCompetitionGrantsGood PeopleFestivals Author:Jon Gordon
“I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."” MenWantGivingLongStrongFunAcceptingEssentialsCapacityLuckQuittingGentleUnlikelyGood LuckStrong Man Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!” PeopleWorldBelieveLife IsHateCan DoI HateLuckRangeBest ThingsIronyShirtsT Shirt Author:John Lydon
“People always tell me how lucky I am that my kids are adventurous eaters, but I don't believe that it's luck at all. By my involving them in the process, not only are they more likely to try something new, but also I can count on them to make better choices when I'm not around.” PeopleTryingBelieveI CanKidsChoicesProcessLuckyLuckDon't BelieveSomething NewAdventurousInvolving Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.” IfsKnowsNeedsLeftKnow HowKnowingLuckNewspapersGood LuckMisleadCaptionAnnotation Author:Ben Katchor
“I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.” WritingHealthyLuckRateProfessionMy WayAcademicHiring Author:Davis Schneiderman
“The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if Ahmet Davotgulu had behaved like a medieval jester, but no such luck for poor Turkey. Its Prime Minister is not taken seriously by too many people.” PeopleCountryPoorTakenLuckJudgementRidiculeMedievalJester Author:Tariq Ali
“How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that farts make you laugh? And you're a professional in comedy? But then, have you ever seen a video of a small dog that farts? Welp. I don't need to explain that anymore. If you can't see the humor in that, good luck being a CEO somewhere where I'm not going to understand you. It's a harmless thing to laugh at. It's humor that's not at the expense of someone else. And it's silly. It's juvenile.” PresidentLaughingComedyDogVoteLuckSillyCeoGood LuckFartJuvenile Author:Kyle Kinane
“There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the right ones. Most people don't go through life without making mistakes, but sometimes you meet someone who seems to hit all the marks. But they never seem to know very much. They have success and luck but no real wisdom.” PeopleThinkingImportantRealSometimesMistakeAdventureLuckMaking MistakesWrong Turn Author:Iris Smyles
“It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. Meaning, get into a situation where you are with like-minded people who are just as passionate about something as you are, and then work really, really hard.” PeopleSituationLuckPassionate Author:Kay Cannon
“The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realise I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are my stable basis, my territory.” PeopleDoneEnjoyEternityLuckMeetingsRealisingGood PeopleOld Friends Author:Gaspar Claus
“I had a good few years where I was a little wild and off the leash. I don't really partake in drugs any more. I occasionally have a little dabble, very occasionally. I have no specific health routine. I'm vegetarian, my wife's nearly 20 years younger than me, good luck, good genes, sunshine.” DrugLuckSunshineVegetarianGood Luck Author:Wayne Hussey
“You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.” WorldKindRealSpeakLanguageWonderfulMiracleMathematicsLuckAll Kinds Author:Freeman Dyson
“Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.” InterestingCrazyLuckInteresting Life Author:Freeman Dyson
“Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, all about how he developed his career and his creativity as a comedian. Lots of what he talks about is relevant to anyone in the creative arts - you find yourself, your voice, your technique and then maybe luck calls.” ArtReadingCreativityCreativeLuckComicComedianFinding YourselfRelevantCreative Art Author:Al Murray
“If you're very talented and keep winning, you'll do just fine. It may take a while. But the talent is hard to identify and talent is hard to tell from luck. There's an awful lot of luck in this business. Past performance is not helpful in judging future performance.” PastWinningTalentJudgingLuckHelpful Author:John C. Bogle
“I did "Highlander", which was just an extraordinary wonderful experience. I'm really proud of "Highlander". And they keep trying to re-make it...good luck to them. I do not want to be involved. But, yeah, I'm really proud of that one.” TryingWonderfulProudLuckExtraordinaryGood LuckHighlander Author:Russell Mulcahy
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.” WisdomSuccessLuckyStressLuckGood LuckFake PeopleBad LuckBest Of LuckFortune And LuckKidding Yourself Author:Larry King
“If there's something left in me, it's better to go down fighting. You've got to have a bit of self-belief and confidence in yourself. I might know that I have only a little chance but I'm a good rider and I try to make it happen. You have to give luck a swift kick in the behind so it falls on your side. You have to make your own luck.” GivingTryingFallFightingChanceLuck Author:Jens Voigt
“I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.” WritingCultureReadingDemocracyLuckJournalismHatedActivistPalestinian Author:Sharif Abdel Kouddous
“You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. You work as hard as you can for ten years so you finally have a chance to be lucky - It's really rare that somebody gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent, a lot of hard work. People that get lucky also tend to be really great looking.” PeopleChanceTalentHard WorkLuckyLuckPerseveranceReally Great Author:Chris Gethard
“There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like. I love the whole idea of Motown. Their idea was to sing how down on their luck they were, but the song implied hope that it would get better. I liked that idea, and I wanted to go even further with it.” SongAttitudeLuckGet BetterResentmentBad AttitudeMotown Author:Memory Tapes
“I had no inkling I was going to run into this kind of luck I experienced. It's all happened and it's all turned my life around overnight; opportunities have knocked on my door and I'm just making use of them. I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that every time I leverage my name I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.” PeopleKindRunningOpportunityLuckMusicalBe GoodGood WorkGood Food Author:Shilpa Shetty
“It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.” SpiritChoicesHabitCircumstancesLuckGenerosityWant To Be Happy Author:Mike Leigh
“I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.” ThinkingKindFateLuckShow Business Author:Gary Cole
“People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but then you're gonna lose that shot over there." Or "The sun's going down, sorry, you're outta luck. We can't afford to." You know? And meanwhile, how do you get the performer's performance? I'm thinking the whole time all about "How can I get my day done?" And my performances are primarily a result of casting the right people at the right time in the right parts. And then I do little modifications.” PeopleThinkingDoneEconomicLuckSorryRight Time Author:Todd Solondz
“You just have to be persistent. I think that's one of the biggest things about the model industry and this career is being persistent and believing in yourself and also being ready when the timing is right. So much of it is about timing and luck, so to be ready when you get the opportunity.” ThinkingBelieveOpportunityLuckBelieve In YourselfTimingPersistent Author:Tricia Helfer
“You make the world - with enough strength and enough luck you make the world that you live in. If you accept that there's participation to be done and an existence to be had - I tend to think there is only one way I want to go through this existence and that's with my eyes open and my chest out.” ThinkingWorldDoneEnoughEyeExistenceAcceptingLuckParticipation Author:Will Oldham
“There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business. We all know you don't get successful just by having a good idea or working hard. You get successful by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up, instead of having the time to learn how to code. If I didn't know that I was gonna be fine if Facebook didn't work out, then I wouldn't be standing up here today. And if we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.” TodaySupportGrowing UpSuccessfulHonestStudentsLuckyMy FamilyLuckWork OutCodeLoan Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.” ThinkingKindAnimalLuckComplicatedCuriousBeastExploration Author:Katherine Dunn
“I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.” PeopleThinkingSuccessfulLuck Author:January Jones
“Everyone's "journey" is different. Obviously with mine, I've had some amazing breaks, but then you have to be ready to seize the moment when the timing and the luck line up. You can't be afraid. You have to be open. I feel like I've always been a leaper, and I've always leapt into things without thinking.” ThinkingDifferentMomentsBreakJourneyLuckTiming Author:Sutton Foster
“I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck.” ThinkingWritingCharacterRunningSecretSuccessfulLuckBeing Successful Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating need for change that was already there. I got a little push. I did a group of the paintings early on that were among the best. It was sort of beginner's luck with these.” ArtistWonderfulPaintingLuck Author:Caio Fonseca
“I just want to say, I'm not interest in politics. Politics is my husband, and since he's not interested in politics anymore, then I'm not interested in politics. I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don't care, do you understand?” CareWishInterestHusbandLuckMy HusbandNot InterestedGood Luck Author:Carla Bruni
“Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.” DifferentActionUnderstandingSituationPersonalityConsequenceLuckAppreciationReverence Author:Alan Briskin
“When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.” ArtFilmActingLuckMovie Business Author:Udo Kier
“The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!” PeopleWishImagineLuckVariousStranger Author:Grant David McCracken
“Usually the casting process is lengthy and humiliating, but in this instance, The Ghost Writer, it was just too easy. I was sitting in a rental car on an L.A. street and my cell phone rang, and it was Roman Polanski on the line. I couldn't really believe my luck. He said, "See you in Berlin." I sat staring at a palm tree, thinking how surreal that was.” ThinkingBelieveEasyTreeCarLuckGhostStaringSatSurrealCell PhoneHumiliatingLengthy Author:Olivia Williams
“My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of something to write in case I actually get up there. I write it at the very last minute like either in the car on the way to the ceremony or, you know, in the bathroom before the show starts. It's all of jumbled mess written on a napkin or a piece of toilet paper. That's my good luck ritual. It's just like being in college waiting for the last minute to do everything.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindLyingNightWaitingWorryCarCollegeLuckMessAwakeRitualBathroomCeremonyGood LuckToilet Paper Author:Tony Shalhoub
“Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.” RealizingActingLuck Author:Alfonso Herrera
“You make your own luck in life, so I'm not criticizing anyone - and I'm not even talking about myself for that - but I mean, every year, look at the team that wins. You can't control everything in a team sport. So I'm not going to cry about it, but yeah, there are moments where I'm like, "F - k." But I say it almost in an appreciative way, in a way where I realize it's great not everyone can do it. I wasn't fortunate enough to do it, but that's what makes winning a title so special.” MeanEnoughMomentsWinningSportsRealizingTeamSpecialCryLuckCriticizeAppreciative Author:Steve Nash