Stanislaw Ulam Quotes

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.

Chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

It takes skill to benefit from luck.

It's a cliche, but most people are good at something, and most people are good at what they're enthusiastic about.

When you have to make a choice between capacity and capability, I would go with capability.

You don't just need skills and talent, you also need luck.

I know what I can bring to the table wherever it is.

Poker is supposed to be fun.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

Talent is what wins games.

There are a lot of talented guys in the league, short and tall.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

I play with great players.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.