Sentences with phrase «for dumb luck»

«I was wrong about prices, wrong about future value, and I was still rewarded for my dumb luck,» he says.

Not exact matches

When I recently went looking for my bitcoins, because the prices kept going up, it was just dumb luck that I had installed Coinbase, the digital currency trading platform, on one of my desktop machines for convenience.

The Bengals can probably credit luck for part of that since the fight at their practice started with Vontaze Burfict diving at Gio Bernard's knees, which ranks as the dumbest fight in any camp so far.

Rosberg endured racing demons in 2016 - when he beat Hamilton outright at places like Monza and Singapore, there was always seemingly another reason for this, be it engine conspiracy or dumb luck.

Entrepreneur Barry Narod credits «dumb luck» for the chance to turn his postdoc work into a thriving business with clients in 17 countries on four continents.

«For the first time, this allows us to begin the process of designing and synthesizing new anesthetics based on where and how they work rather than on serendipity and sheer dumb luck,» said Neil Harrison, PhD, associate professor of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study, which was carried out in collaboration with Adron Harris, PhD, (UC Denver) and colleagues Eric Greenblatt at Pennsylvania and John Mihic, now at Wake Forest University.

Oh, sure, he gets an «A» for effort (and for Ant - Man), but whereas much of his success owes to imagination and dumb luck, Hope is a highly trained combatant, and very possibly a born leader.

You can't count on fortune and fame any more than you can count on being at the right place at the right time OR pure, dumb luck, but you CAN count on doing things the right way (quality editing, a solid cover design, etc.) so that you've got a better chance of doors opening for you.

Hard lesson learned: when Warren Buffett says earning > 12 % in stock is pure dumb luck and you laugh at it, you're in for a trouble.

(For more on his own example of how «dumb luck» in real estate gave him more rewards than all his hard work earning a PhD, see my column: «Interest rates stay the same, so do hot housing prices.»)

This position may still play out positively, but it will just be pure dumb LUCK (something we hope for in investing but know not to count on).

For when he looked around him, at the books and the tennis court and the folk art on the walls — when he contemplated the countless millions that Niederhoffer had made over the years — he could not escape the thought that it might all have been the result of sheer, dumb luck.

Now the reality is no one will consistently miss all the worst days — I'm the first guy to admit our 100 % Cash call the day before the flash crash was dumb luck — but you can avoid being long for most of a secular bear market.

Dumb Luck Capital... 2) Coal, 3) Waited «for the Ag cycle to turn,»... 6) Use «mid-cycle earnings» on melting ice cubes

Getting 100 % went from something fun for the diehard fans, to a herculean task of tedium and dumb - luck.»

It's something that can often feel a little to fast and frantic for its own good with kill sometimes feeling more like dumb luck at being in the right place at the right time instead of skill.

steven you consider your Gulf Stream correlation just dumb luck too, I guess, or maybe perhaps there is a reason for it that you refuse to accept.

I have determined that what goes for volcanic cooling is not caused by the volcano but by dumb luck.

For some reason, Texans believe that their own dumb luck is proof of the greatness of the free market system

Whatever your story may be, for those of you choosing to live or work off - grid, Rosen wants to hear all about it and include your tales of ingenuity, self - reliance, creativity or just plain dumb luck.

I don't know what force protected me that morning — perhaps it was God almighty; maybe it was dumb luck — but there's not a week that goes by that I'm not grateful for my health and moments of good fortune such as that.