September 2006
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
5h 50m
English
book
Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
by Porras Jerry, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson
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Chapter 9. Earning Your Luck—Preparing for Serendipity by Using Big Hairy Audacious Goals
Nothing is more difficult than to introduce a new order. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. | ||
| --Noccolo Machiavelli | ||
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. | ||
| --Thomas Jefferson | ||
If you ask enduringly high achievers about their success, most will tell you it was a serendipitous journey. That is not to say they were just lucky. In 1754, Horace Walpole, the fourth Earl of Orford, England, coined the term serendipity, based he said on “a silly fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip, in which ...
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