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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by tomasien on Monday November 25, 2013 @11:07AM (#6794829)
Bizarre - the last link I was on was a random ESPN quiz with UVa star Joe Harris in which that quote was one of the questions. (I realize this is a pretty meaningless and useless comment, but seeing this quote 2 times in less than 10 seconds was too much not to mention).
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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by evanspa on Monday November 25, 2013 @11:33AM (#6795043)
I'm unable to find a definitive reference, but Gary Player (golfing legend) is also attributed with the quote: "The harder I practice, the luckier I get." Perhaps that's why it was on ESPN.

Pretty sure George Simmons has this quote of Player's on one of the chapter pages in his "Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell" book.

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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by gruseom on Monday November 25, 2013 @11:37AM (#6795072)
Quote Investigator has tackled this one:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/14/luck/

The upshot is that its origin is unknown, but goes back at least to a Walter Winchell column from 1949. Gary Player used it and became associated with it. The attribution to Jefferson is nonsense, of course.

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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by tomasien on Monday November 25, 2013 @12:00PM (#6795231)
Jefferson and Einstein, never trust a quote attributed to them!
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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by tomasien on Monday November 25, 2013 @11:38AM (#6795080)
It was just because Thomas Jefferson said it and Joe Harris goes to the University he founded, it's just bizarre that I saw it 2 times in less than 10 seconds.
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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by MichaelGG on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:31PM (#6797200)
Is it bizarre? Given the number of people on HN, the number of things you're likely to read -- it seems inevitable that "bizarre" coincidences will certainly happen.
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Re:What if successful startups are just lucky? by baddox on Monday November 25, 2013 @10:04PM (#6798838)
Presumably it's still bizarre for him to experience the phenomenon.
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