Speech On Luck

“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a

Obviously success is usually defined by how much money you have. In this day in age if you don’t have money you’re a failure; so go get

There are tons of people in our world today who have become very successful and these people find success in different ways. Some people work hard their whole life to achieve success and others just seem to be born talented in

When a person is lucky, it does not have to mean that they are fortunate with money. Luck is the chance for things to go the way you want them to go with out having any control over the situation. In The Rocking Horse Winner, Hester, the mother seems to believe that luck is strictly having money, and when there is no money, there is no luck. Hester's idea of luck meaning money brings forth the two ideas of greed and death throughout the story.

Success in our careers, in our investments, and in our life decisions, both major and minor—is as much the result of random factors as the result of skill, preparedness, and hard work.

People find success in mysterious ways: success can be perceived as different things in life. When in hard times I have realized that desperation becomes an issue because it seems like the best and only option. During the great depression when people lost everything because of the market crashing they tried to get any job they could. One success story that came out of this was by Floyd Bostwick Odlum. “He began swooping in to buy up failing companies at drastically reduced prices.” This didn't sound like the smartest move at the time but was very effective, so effective that he earned the title “possibly the only man in the United States who made a great fortune during the great depression.” He further became one of the top ten wealthiest

Michael Lewis’s speech at this past graduation was a very memorable and inspiring one. The address was very relevant to the graduating class and each one of our futures. He highlighted how important it is to keep in mind that we should not reward ourselves for success when it is luck that has gotten us where we are. Instead, we should be using our good fortune to better the lives of others who may be less fortunate. Lewis develops this message through a series of personal stories, beginning from when he was graduating Princeton. By doing this, he allowed his audience to relate to him since he was around the same age when his luck brought him to success. He moves on to discuss the different instances when luck played a role in determining both

Oprah Winfrey said that “luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” I think that this is true. To some, the notion of luck would mean that good fortune just passively happens to a person. In my assessment, this quote means that there is no such thing as happenstance; that every bit of that good fortune is something to be actively and consciously worked on. She would certainly know.

But then there is the point of seizing the moment that gets left behind sometimes. That part about “preparation meeting opportunity” that gets forgotten. It’s important. A few words such as, “make sure you’re in” before the saying, “the right place at the right time” changes the whole perspective on a luck based quote. You’re going to prove that you are here, because you wanted to be here. You’ve taken luck out of the equation. You’ve prepared for this; you’re ready to make this moment

Luck tends to be a mystical topic. The very nature of luck is unpredictable. Some people have it in certain situations, and others don’t. So far as I have seen in my life ‘luck’ is pretty blind in who it chooses. So it would seem to me that creating a formula such as: “preparation+opportunity=luck”, isn’t the whole story. When Oprah mentions luck in this quote, it seems as if she is really attempting to describe a formula for success. In my opinion she greatly over-simplifies the process of becoming successful. There are many factors involved in success, not just two, and from my experience luck simply isn’t one of them. However, I don’t think she was completely wrong in stating the importance

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity, a quote from Oprah Winfrey which I agree, there is no such thing as luck but when a person is preparing themselves for an opportunity, endless results can happen. As I am continuing to grow as a woman in today society I have developed myself as a woman that doesn't give up. I had to make a lot of changes in my life because I am mother of two children. I used every opportunity to better myself for my children as well as for our future. In my experience as a mother and provider I had to look at the different opportunities out there for me and my kids, I first started with my job, I asked myself can I work a 2nd shift job while raising them? How much is my worth ? should I settle for just minimum

Ever wonder why some people can start our dirt poor and end up wealthy - while others have every advantage and still struggle to pay their bills? Seems to me like some people are "wired" to attract money. Money flows easily to them. Whatever they do succeeds. Is it luck?

What is luck? Is it something we can control? Is it a way of the universe favoring some people over others? Or is it simply a perfect combination of being at the right place and at the right time? These are questions I am sure we have all pondered on at some point in our lives. When a friend, colleague, or relative excitedly tells you of the promotions they always seem to be getting at their job. The sports team that seems to have won thanks that one ‘lucky’ shot. The lucky student accepted into a school that not many people get a chance to get into. Or even watching the news about some lucky couple that won the lottery. These are some examples where onlookers would subconsciously accredit the situation to “luck”. My question is, what is luck?

Luck is success or failure, brought by chance. In my mind luck is sorts of like karma, which is destiny or fate, following from a cause. Some don't believe it, and others do.

There are many reasons to choose a candidate for a position: intelligence, qualifications, experience, but what about luck?