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You make your own luck. If you never put yourself into a position, you'll almost never get lucky. There's a certain luck involved, absolutely, but that luck is
by deadmetheny 9y ago
You make your own luck. If you never put yourself into a position, you'll almost never get lucky. There's a certain luck involved, absolutely, but that luck is not blind.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson (supposedly)
- stephengillie 9y agoOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison. You miss 100% the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky
- qntty 9y agoNeither this statement nor any variations thereof have ever been found in Thomas Jefferson's writings https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-am-great-believer-luckspurious-quotation https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-a...
- deadmetheny 9y agoHence the "supposedly", although I suppose it's silly to think I could avoid the famous HN pedantry.
- qntty 9y ago:)
- collyw 9y agoI agree with you to an extent, but thing like being born in somewhere like North Korea are going to seriously limit the amount of opportunity you can create for yourself.