“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.” PeopleEnoughTurnsStarsMillionsMinutesRocksStageFrontsTvsThousandLuckyConcertsRock StarSpinal Tap Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.” WorldMissingThousandLuckyShotsBreathsPrecaution Book:Force and Ideas: The Early Writings Source: Force and Ideas: The Early Writings
“If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.” IfsNeedsShouldEnoughUseThousandLuckyHundredAccountsDollarsSufficientBank AccountsPersonal Needs Author:Richard Branson
“I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.” IfsThinkingWayWritingStillsBookMightWrittenThousandLuckySellsCopiesPrintRejectedEnchanted Author:Gail Carson Levine
“If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.” IfsMenMistakeWiseBrotherThousandLuckyTenOriginalsCousinSame Mistakes Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.” WantCoupleThousandLuckyTenTheaterDollarsReleaseFifteenTheatricalAdvertisementsMovie Theater Author:Robert Greene