Lottery Ticket Quotes
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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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
We’ve created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it’s part-ownership of a business (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
Birth is life’s first lottery ticket (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they’re there to make our most absurd dreams come true (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
When you buy a lottery ticket, you don’t know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. and there is an underlying distribution for the game (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
What were the odds that she’d turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she’d be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn’t even want to watch, in a place she didn’t want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular (Lottery Ticket Quotes)
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 (Lottery Ticket Quotes)