RULE 57
Capitalize on chance – be lucky, but never admit it
If you keep your eyes open and your wits about you there will be opportunities, chances, bits of random luck. If you are quick and clever and enterprising you can catch the coat-tails of such moments and ride on the back of them. Such is luck. Grab it while you can, because it is a fleeting thing. You can’t build it into a plan or a budget or a report, but it will happen all around you. In fact, the more you cherish it and nurture it and look for it, the more it will happen. We have to believe in luck or otherwise how could we attribute the success of people we don’t like?
Now don’t go building your career on luck, it doesn’t work like that. I’m saying we all get a bit lucky from time ...
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