To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.

Joseph G. Peterson
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"What if I don't do anything to make my life better? What if I don't work for the things I want and the things I deserve? That would be unfortunate indeed. That would mean that I didn't have any luck at all. And that's tantamount to not having luck at all."

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