“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) writer and economist
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. <br class="br">Variant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Ed Bradley (1941–2006) News correspondent
[John Sears, RTNDA Communicator, RTNDA; The Association; Radio Television Digital News Association; Volume 54, August 2000, Interview with Ed Bradley]
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Henry Royce (1863–1933) English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
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“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).
Misattributed
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Originated with Samuel Goldwyn as a paraphrase of a proverb from a collection by Coleman Cox, but similar proverbs have existed since the 16th century. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.151
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
David Fleming (1940–2010) British activist
It was Thomas Jefferson who started the stream of variations on that theme. He should have added, 'The harder I work on one thing, the unluckier I get on all the other commitments I haven’t had time for'. <br class="br"> Lean Logic, (2016), p. 472, entry on Time Fallacies http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/
