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"the harder you work, the luckier you get." do you agree with this quote?
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Do you agree with this quote or not?
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Yes .
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You make your own luck that way.
Like the above said, it's probably more beneficial to know influencial/important people.
You've completey misunderstood the quote.
Today, overworked, underpaid, impoverished sweatshop worker - tomorrow, millionaire.
Think I saw the film.
Fan: "You were really lucky to make that shot!"
Sportsperson: "It's funny, the more I practice the luckier I get..."
It works well with sports people and musicians, not so much in general life. It might be truer in a lot of cases to say "the harder your parents worked, the luckier you got." I bet Stella McCartney was not the hardest working fashion student of her year when Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell modelled her student show, ensuring her wall to wall press coverage.
The problem is, that I finish at five on two afternoons and there's nobody else to work to load as the bos has to do some things round the back and the tills need working and between5-6, there's nobody else to work the load.
The above and me offering to hang on (last time, the boss was almost pleading with me
Still, with two juicy weeks off the early finish would have been an added bonus.
I told one of the bosses I was working with that It'd be a waste of time putting all the Fosters, Strongbow, Carling and Stella out just for the World Cup and I be half of it's been reduced.
This is very true for me. Willingness to move around the country to follow the work; to gain experience from a variety of different companies; and to take risks / new challenges on a regular basis has benefited me far greater than my limited education, family background, or contact list
Though hard work is a big part of it
It's just a sarcastic quip in response to success being put down to luck.
'Luck' is when preparation meets opportunity.
No ... at least not according to my undesrtanding of "luck".
Oxford dictionary definition:
"Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions"
If you work hard and create the opportunities to succeed, that's hard work, not luck.
If you start chatting to a complete stranger in a pub, and they just happen to be looking to recruit someone with your skills, that's luck! Obviously, gaining those skills required hard work, but the opportunity to use them was down to a chance encounter ... i.e. luck.
Luck has nothing to do with it, nor has working hard just for the sake of it. However, I do believe firmly that if you embrace every opportunity given to you, even if it is challenging and takes you out of your comfort zone and go the extra mile when doing so (I.e. outside normal working hours) you will a) improve your cv b) grow as a person c) put yourself in a position where you are noticed, regarded more highly and as a consequence will be given new opportunities. It's like stepping stones, follow the pattern and each iteration moves you upwards. So not luck at all but I can vouch that it does work.