No, seriously. Anyone can be successful and talk about how smart they were. But they are not being honest with themselves if they won't also admit to being lucky.
Now, you can manufacture a higher probability of being lucky. Most lucky people are very, very good at doing that.
But there are always a few people who are just lucky. Whether they happened to start something in the right place at the right time without actually knowing how good their timing is, to being introduced to that friend of a friend who ends up acquiring their company.
I think "be lucky" should be near the top of the list.
No, seriously. Anyone can be successful and talk about how smart they were. But they are not being honest with themselves if they won't also admit to being lucky.
Now, you can manufacture a higher probability of being lucky. Most lucky people are very, very good at doing that.
But there are always a few people who are just lucky. Whether they happened to start something in the right place at the right time without actually knowing how good their timing is, to being introduced to that friend of a friend who ends up acquiring their company.
I think "be lucky" should be near the top of the list.