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To: jonkai who wrote (33530)	5/31/2002 1:32:01 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) of 213177

does that sound like someone who was driven? my god, the man is the luckiest guy in the world that Gary Kildall was an idiot....he was the luckiest guy in the world that CPQ cloned the PC....... he was the luckiest guy in the world that Paul Allen knew of a OS that could be had..... and he was the luckiest guy in the world that IBM decided they needed to get in on apple's market within one single year, rather than two, if it were two years....they would have done it all internal.... and you call it driven? (nothing wrong with luck though...) but look at it for what it was..... it was a series of events that GATES HAD NO CONTROL OVER...... NOT A SINGLE THING HE COULD HAVE DONE TO CHANGE THESE EVENTS IN THE ORDER THAT HAPPENED.... DRIVEN OR NOT......... Listen to yourself. Somehow "luck" seems to follow Gates. While other former top dogs, like Phillip Khan, Steve Jobs, and the Lotus guy flounder, Gates stays on top. As someone once said, when asked about the reasons for his success: It's all luck, but somehow the harder I work the luckier I get. "Shallow men believe in luck." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." - Ray Kroc "I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get." - Sam Shoen "All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it." - Robert Collier

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