A Quote by Donald Luskin

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Donald Luskin

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Donald Luskin
American - Businessman
Born: 1954

As I have often said, I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super smart!

Dan Pena

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

Stewart Butterfield

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Laura Lippman

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

Brian Grazer

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Po Bronson

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Isaac of Nineveh

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Ani DiFranco

A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

Jean Francois Revel

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.