audreyh1
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
OK - so we're all smart enough to take full advantage of our good luck.
Audrey
Audrey
Maddy the Turbo Beagle said:Sometimes I believe that our success is also a good helping of cynicism.
mathjak107 said:never confuse genius with a bull market
An excellent point!
Those of us who were positioned to benefit from the bull, through our genius or luck, must now be ready for what comes next. 2B
planning101 said:I like this quote :
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully
by Charles Victor Cherbuliez
On a personal note, I think I'm lucky to find this website!
Ceberon said:I'd be curious to know how many people narrowly missed "being lucky" as well.
free4now said:Exactly half of the population gets above-mean returns on their efforts, and exactly half get below-mean returns.
Maybe he's assuming a symmetrical distribution of returns where the mean equals the median.Robert the Red said:Actually, that should be median: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
Yes, but you can bask in the warm fuzzy glow of knowing that you still have ethics, let along knowing that your ethics are intact. Heck, people still talk to you at parties. You don't have the world simultaneously loathing & hating you for buggy software. You didn't single-handedly destroy billions of value of one of the biggest ole-time media companies in existence. I bet Gates & Case go to bed every night wishing they could be more like you...wab said:I turned down a job with Microsoft in 1987. Bad move.
I turned down a job with AOL in 1996. Another bad move.
Decided to start my own little software company instead. Turned out to be a pretty good move, but I know the net worth of some of those guys who interviewed me at Microsoft in 1987. Ouch! It still hurts....