Branch Rickey Quotes

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

Luck is the residue of design.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

England is a lucky country for me, and fortune comes only with hard work.

There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

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

If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.