“AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.” WorldNeedsTwoWarStatesWinningGrowthUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomicMiddlePolicyAppreciateWar Of The WorldsMiddle ClassSentimentsHistorianEnginesTicketsManufacturingPublic PolicyTwo Worlds Author:Christina Romer
“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.” RunningYoungWinningIndividualLosesChanceCompanyHigherPureToughSeekingWinnerFollyFundInvestorsSophisticatedTicketsVentureLotteryLottery Ticket Author:Steven Rattner
“You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.” WinningTicketsLotteryLottery Ticket Author:Luis Gonzalez
“The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life” WinningTicketsFoolishness Author:David Oyedepo
“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.” PlayHandsEyeAmericaCertainWinningLostChanceLosingWorthyKneesOpponentsEngagedCombatTicketsContestsAbyssGlamourChances AreGambleLotteryGloomyDaisiesSnobYawningLottery TicketWorthy Opponents Author:Barbara Holland
“[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.” HumansBodyHandsWinningHuman BeingsBrainWonderfulEvolutionGunElectricTicketsElephantsClayLotteryRazorsOne DirectionPigeonsWirelessHaresAdaptable Author:Beryl Markham
“Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket” IfsWellsWinningGrayTicketsLotteryCan't Win Author:Andy Gray
“Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.” Life IsWinningHugeVisibleTicketsLife Is LikeLottery Author:Jostein Gaarder
“Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.” IfsLittlesDesireWinningTermMagicPerformingMysticismProvidingTicketsArrangementsCoincidencePathwaysLotteryLottery Ticket Author:Grant Morrison