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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”

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Author:Lucille Ball

“The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.”

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

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Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.”

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Author:Hilary Swank

“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.”

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Author:Alice Miller

“The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.”

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Book:The Ivory Dagger

Source: The Ivory Dagger

“Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.”

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Book:Money Dynamics for the 1990s

Source: Money Dynamics for the 1990s

“Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.”

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Author:Tony Oller

“To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.”

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Author:Maurice Samuel

“Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.”

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Author:Natasha Josefowitz

“One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.”

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Author:Sophia Loren

“It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.”

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Author:Jill Douglas

“Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”

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Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.”

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Author:David J. Schwartz