Arthur Laffer Quotes

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.

Obviously, the line of miracles that got me to where I am is incredible.

I've only ever had surprises. My whole career's a surprise!

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

As good luck would have it.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

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

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.