“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).
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“The harder I work, the luckier I get'. 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'.”
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 472, entry on Time Fallacies http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/
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“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/
“I have only one regret … that I have not worked harder.”
Henry Royce (1863–1933) English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
Deathbed assertion, as quoted in Outlook Business, Vol. 3, No. 4 (23 February 2008)
“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: Anybody Out There?
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in Jan. 1882; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 20 (letter 171) <br class="br">1880s, 1882
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
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.