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Volume 48, Issue 3
1 June 1999
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Work Study
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Non Article| June 01 1999

The luckiest one

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7190
Print ISSN: 0043-8022
© MCB UP Limited
1999
Work Study (1999) 48 (3)
https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.1999.07948caa.004

The luckiest one

Serendipity leads to coincidence and to good luck. If we could bottle luck we could make a fortune. However, I am reminded of Gary Player's reply to a golf commentator who had just commented on the part that luck had played in the just-completed round, "It's funny," said Player, "but the more I practise, the luckier I get".

© MCB UP Limited
1999
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