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Absolute Success is Luck. Relative Success is Hard Work.
Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the world is too complex to allow 100% of your actions to dictate 100% of your outcomes. They are driven by the same thing: Y
... See morefrom The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
Jennifer Baez added
- Luck is useful. Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.
from "Make Good Art" by Neil Gaiman
Prashanth Narayan added
- They found that individuals with higher income or a higher social status were the most likely to say that success results from luck and connections rather than hard work, while low-income individuals were more likely to say success comes from hard work and individual effort.
from Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols by Rob Henderson
sari added
- “There are 3 primary drivers of results in life:
1) Your luck (randomness).
2) Your strategy (choices).
3) Your actions (habits).
Only 2 of the 3 are under your control. But if you master those 2, you can improve the odds that luck will work for you rather than against you.”from 3-2-1: Opportunity Cost, Power of Listening, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | James Clear by James Clear
Isaac Feldman added
- Success has a nasty tendency to increase confidence more than ability. The longer it lasts, and the more it was tied to some degree of serendipity, the truer that becomes.
from Dangerous Feelings by Morgan Housel
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What is the more productive notion of good luck? One that is defined by totally random factors outside your control, or a matter of probability that can be increased—though not guaranteed—by the right decisions and the right preparation? Obviously, the latter. This is why successful yet mysteriously “lucky” people seem to gravitate toward it.
from The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
- "In the end, luck swallows everything ... It all comes down to luck: luck—good or bad—in being born the way we are, luck—good or bad—in what then happens to shape us. We can’t be ultimately responsible for how we are in such a way as to have absolutely, buck-stopping responsibility for what we do." — Galen Strawson
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Mild success can be explainable by skill, but wild success is attributable to variance
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