I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

The remark wryly reframes “luck” as something that can be cultivated rather than passively received. By pairing belief in luck with the observation that luck increases with effort, the speaker collapses the opposition between chance and merit: preparation, persistence, and sheer hours worked expand the number of opportunities for favorable outcomes and make one more able to capitalize on them. The line also functions as a corrective to fatalism and to envy of others’ “good fortune,” implying that what looks like luck from the outside is often the visible tip of sustained, unseen labor. Its enduring appeal lies in its aphoristic encouragement of agency without denying contingency.

1) "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
2) "I am a great believer in luck; the harder I work, the more luck I have."