Your thoughts about luck in business

[Claude Whitacre]

If you take a group of 100 hard working people and a group of 100 "average" workers, I have no doubt that there were be more successful people in the hard working group.

However, I also have no doubt that not all of the 100 hard working people will have more success than all of the 100 average people and that there are random factors we have no control over that affect our lives and success. And the two aren't mutually exclusive. A hard working person can also be lucky and vice versa.

I don't think a person can be lucky or unlucky. But random things happen that affect what we do, and how it turns out.  


That's said, I've always felt that I was lucky...whatever that means.