Afew things investors might want to remember about luck … Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it — and a greater fool if you count upon it. — Phyllis Bottome Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand or simply being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save … but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved. — Jessica Sorensen On the other hand you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy Jews created the concept of good luck. "Luck" in Hebrew is "mazel", which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place 2. zman = time 3. lamud = work. — Celso Cukierkorn Luck works only when you work. Even when it comes to the lottery, only those who make the effort to go to a store and buy a lottery ticket stand a chance to win. — Pradeep Sarkkar It’s also a...
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