Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Give luck a chance to happen.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.