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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next. – Amber Tamblyn

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. – James Thomas Fields

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. – Guy Kawasaki

A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time. – Eric Hoffer

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. – Emanuel Ax

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. – James A. Garfield

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on ‘Press Your Luck’. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money. – Randy West

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. – Ed Bradley

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. – Frank Wedekind

Art depends on luck and talent. – Francis Ford Coppola

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody. – Eubie Blake

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. – Ed Bradley

Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes. – Josephine Baker

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck. – Shemar Moore

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. – Ibrahim Babangida

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don’t try it without that 10 per cent. – Richie Benaud

Care and diligence bring luck. – Thomas Fuller

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. – George Sanders

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller

Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin