Horace Quotes

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Money does not choose people.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business. We all know you don't get successful just by having a good idea or working hard. You get successful by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up, instead of having the time to learn how to code. If I didn't know that I was gonna be fine if Facebook didn't work out, then I wouldn't be standing up here today. And if we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.

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

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.

Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

Every so often, push your luck.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Some people find oil. Others don't.