What Causes Success? One word:

Posted in July 27th, 2006

While I have always liked to quote John Paul Getty’s success formula,

Rise early,

Work hard,

Strike oil,

it strikes me as being too wordy.Â I have a new favorite word that sums up success, or what causes it.

Pluck

(persistence +luck)

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Hermann said,

on July 29th, 2006 at 6:47 am

I dont think you can establish a univeral formula for success. Different formulas, for different people. According to my limited experience, the closes rule to success I can think of, is… work only with professionals. Dont deal with amateurs. Saves time, saves money. Always. Nomatter what you do, only work with professionals in their field of work. I tried so many times to save money, by choosing the less walked road, and using amateurs instead of professionals, and I ended up with more money spent, and projects poorly done.

malongo said,

on April 6th, 2009 at 8:38 am

Any way for us we have a saying that cheap things are costly and shortcuts are the longest routes.
There fore your experience in using amateurs instead of professionals is on way to show how cheap things are costly.
Thanks
Malongo

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