A Quote by Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Douglas Coupland

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Desperation Lottery Lottery Ticket Tickets

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Laurence Sterne

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

Atul Gawande

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

Steven Wright

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

Louise Hay

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

Peter Lynch

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

Donald Trump

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

Nina Conti

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Jostein Gaarder

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

Jimmy Carr

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

Peter Lynch

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Jeff Bezos

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.