Martha Beck Quotes

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

Demoralization is something I know a great deal about, all my life I have got something for nothing. That is entirely due to luck and I think a great many members opposite are in the same position. We have all got something for nothing. The question is: are we demoralized? I am not demoralized.

I ask myself if I deserve what I have. What I have today is way more than I ever bargained for.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.

A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don't got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.

I am fortunate.

God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.