Lottery Winner Quotes
- The page contains a collection of money quotes related to lottery winners and playing the lottery
- Many of the quotes discuss the very low probability of actually winning the lottery and how it is essentially a tax on those who don’t understand probabilities
- Some quotes note that lottery winners often don’t remain happy long-term and can squander their winnings
- A few quotes discuss how those with lower incomes spend a disproportionate amount on lottery tickets compared to higher income individuals
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“Your chances of winnin’ the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket” — Winston Groom
“I’d rather earn the money than win the lottery because there’s no joy in a reward unless it comes at the end of a story” — Donald Miller
“Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it” — Vera Nazarian
“Winning a $20 million lottery ticket won’t make you happier. Research has shown that after one year, lottery winners go back to their baseline. Some are even less happy. A few probably spent their money on a big mansion or a fancy car. Maybe they spent it all on gambling. But even so, at the end of three months, it’s just a house, it’s just a nice car. You get used to it” — Dr. Sanjiv Chopra
“The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math” — Monique Lloyd
“If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do” — Mary Higgins Clark
“It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory” — George Orwell
People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a different approach to probabilities. Their rationale must be, ‘Well, I can either win it or not win it, so my odds of winning are 50/50’
— Orlando Winters
Life is a lottery that we’ve already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets
— Louise L. Hay
“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?” — Jay Leno
“The truth is that the lottery is a rip-off instituted by our government. This is not a moral position; it is a mathematical, statistical fact” — Dave Ramsey
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I despise the Lottery. There’s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid” — Brian May
“I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not” — Fran Lebowitz
“Sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery, or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and, with the rapid wealth, come rapid claims: which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After you win the lottery, one of the first things to do is put together a list of people you trust and make one of them a buffer — someone who will deal with those who come out of the woodwork, because you now have a target on your wallet
— Mike Rhoades
“That paper money has some advantages, is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable, and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied” — Thomas Jefferson
“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged” — Roger Jones
The lowest-income households in the U.S. on average spend $412 a year on lotto tickets, four times the amount of those in the highest income groups. Forty percent of Americans cannot come up with $400 in an emergency. Which is to say: Those buying $400 in lottery tickets are by and large the same people who say they couldn’t come up with $400 in an emergency” — Morgan Housel