Although the wording is different, that line comes from the 1920s writer Coleman Cox, who specialized in producing pithy quotes like it: http://books.google.co

Although the wording is different, that line comes from the 1920s writer Coleman Cox, who specialized in producing pithy quotes like it: http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlnyqNjN7AC&lpg=PA63&dq=coleman%20cox%20believer%20in%20luck&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q=coleman%20cox%20believer%20in%20luck&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlnyqNjN7AC&lpg=PA63&#... http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/