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you have to be good to be lucky

you have to be good to be lucky proverb: people who succeed do so through skill and preparation rather than mere chance.

Proverb

you have to be good to be lucky

  1. People who succeed do so through skill and preparation rather than mere chance.

Questions about you have to be good to be lucky

What does you have to be good to be lucky mean?
You have to be good to be lucky means people who succeed do so through skill and preparation rather than mere chance.
What part of speech is you have to be good to be lucky?
You have to be good to be lucky is a proverb.

Words near you have to be good to be lucky in the dictionary

  1. you guys
  2. you had one job
  3. you had to be there
  4. you happy jiu OK
  5. you have beautiful eyes
  6. you have to be good to be lucky
  7. you have to be in it to win it
  8. you haven't lived
  9. you hear me
  10. you hear what I'm saying
  11. you just had to

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