“It doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do, your success, in this industry, is always going to be governed in large part by luck.”— Felix Salmon, fusion.net
“Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the successes totally as a personal reflection of their abilities rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.”— Jim Paul, amazon.com
“When I look back over my long life, if there is one thing that leaps out at me it is the role of luck and chance in our lives. From this particular string of accidental happenings all the rest followed.”— Katharine Graham, amazon.com
“The laws of probability operate everywhere and that being the case, somewhere in the world there is the luckiest person. I mean if you were to go around the world and make a record of the luck in the lives of all the people on earth, and put them on a chart, you'd have a chart like a bell curve. And…”— Cormac McCarthy, oprah.com