The Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf: Good Luck

Do you need luck to do business?

Good Luck by Alex Rovira and Fernando Trias de Bes

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”
- George Bernard Shaw

This book is recommended by this entrepreneur I know. As a matter of fact, he has contributed a lot of his time and effort to the social cause of educating youth in entrepreneurship. I decided to take a look at this book upon his recommendation. Visiting the Bukit Merah library (National Library Board), I found that most of the branches own copies of this book and very few are on loan at the moment. So, I borrowed the book from the library and spent an afternoon on Labour day to read what lessons I can learn from the book.

In a short summary, the story of this book is simple. If you have read either The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho or Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom, you will certainly enjoy this book. It is a book to inspire people who want to success in life and business. The book is very short and can be read within two to three hours. The authors took three years to research on the book and wrote it in eight hours. The story centered on the touching story of two old men, Max and Jim, who met by chance in Central Park. These two characters are good friends fifty years ago. Max achieved great successes in his life and Jim did not, despite initial success due to some circumstances. As the story progresses, Max told Jim an old tale about two knights searching for the four-leaf clover and how one of them manages to succeed by creating his own luck compare to the other person who failed by waiting and taking short cuts.

Ultimately, the moral of the story is that creating good luck consists only in creating the conditions, i.e. you actively work for it instead of waiting for it to come to you, because good luck never comes to you by chance. If you are interested in reading the ten rules of good luck, you should take a walk to the library close to you and see whether you can find this inspirational book there. Perhaps, you may find your good luck there like I do.

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