Peter Mayle Quotes

I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

I've been very lucky in my life.

I am a great believer in luck.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

I don't know why I was lucky enough to have people in my community take me in. To be able to continue school. Or why I was lucky enough to find work or go to college. I do know that kind of luck is one in a million.

If you make your own luck then I don't seem to be very good at it.

You always need a bit of fortune in life.

I am a very, very lucky player, a privileged player.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

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

It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?