Lottery Ticket Quotes

• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Tickets

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• Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Thinking, Luck, Tickets

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• Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Winning, Tickets, Lottery

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• Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Firsts, Tickets, Birth

  Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Tickets, Desperation, Lottery

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• I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Dollars

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• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

  Twyla Tharp

  Reading, Hero, Creativity

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Odds

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Soul

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• Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Money, Math

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• Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

  Steven Rattner

  Running, Winning, Venture

  "A Sneaky Way to Deregulate" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 3, 2013.

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• Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

  Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

  Funny, Marriage, Tears

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• You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

  Bill Cosby

  Winning, Lightning, Tickets

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• It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Gambling, Riches, Tickets

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459

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• I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hope, Doors, Feelings

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

  Eva Braun

  Two, Feelings, Would Be

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• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Winning, Yawning

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• If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

  Steve Morse

  Practice, Leader, Promise

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• It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.

  Clancy Martin

  Brother, Lying, Athlete

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

  Norm MacDonald

  Merry Christmas, Thinking, Guy

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• Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

  Emily Giffin

  Struggle, Hard Work, Luck

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

  Peter Thiel

  Agency, Over You, Important

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business

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