'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
In a stage race, you can have bad luck or make a mistake, and it's not the end of the race. You have more opportunities.
I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.
