The laws of games of chance are as inexorable as those of the universe.   A skillful player will, in the long run, defeat a less skillful one.

In a casino, the banker will always beat the individual if that person stays long enough.

Assuming that the casino banker played honestly, although I neither know nor care whether it is.  But this is at least certain--the cagnotte gains 3 per cent on every spin. Mathematically, a person is bound to lose the capital that was invested in every thirty throws when their luck is neither good nor bad.  In the long run their luck will leave them with a balanced book--minus the cagnotte.

My advice to any person would be, "Never play roulette at all; but if you must play, hold the cagnotte."

It is necessary to dwell on this gambling side of the question, because every person who believes in luck has a touch of the gambler inside them, though they may never have played a stake.  And from the point of view of real success in affairs the gambler is doomed in advance. It is a frame of mind which a person should discourage severely when they finds it within the citadel of their mind.

A similar type of character is to be found in the person who consistently refuses good offers or even small chances of work because they are not good enough for them.

They expects that Luck will suddenly bestow on them a ready-made position or a gorgeous chance suitable to the high opinions that they holds of their own capacities.  After a time thier friends get tired of helping them to get any job openings at all. In wooing the Goddess of Luck, the person has neglected the Goddess of Opportunity.

Far different will be the mental standpoint of the person who really means to succeed.

• They will banish the idea of luck from their mind.
• They will accept every opportunity, however small it may appear, which seems to lead to the possibility of greater things.
• They will not wait on luck to open the portals to fortune.
• They will seize opportunity by the forelock and develop its chances by their own industry.

It is natural and right for you to have hope, but if hope turns to a belief in luck, it becomes a poison to your mind.

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"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."
*-- Benjamin Franklin

"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake."  *-- Frank Wilczek 

"A person's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things."
*-- Wallace D. Wattles

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