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Make Your Own Luck: Success Tactics You'll Never Learn in B-School

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Make Your Own Luck is a practical guide for getting the most from what you have. Make Your Own Luck is really a feel good kind of book not based on heavily researched scientific fact.

The author reminds the reader of old platitudes and gives antidotal evidence support these platitudes. Yet in the hustle and bustle of everyday life these reminders are welcome and help realign the compass guiding our lives.

The author reminds us the life is full of unexplained coincidences. If we notice and engage (rather then ignore) these coincidences we can usually find opportunity knocking. Make your own luck covers topics such as failure (required to succeed), rejection (required to succeed), finding a purpose in work and specialization (which can be a path to success).

The underlying tone is the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The author adds the concept of the "web of life", which could be described as "what goes around comes around".

I would recommend Make Your Own Luck. Although the concepts are tried and true they are still important to consider and pursue. In a busy world we need to be reminded and make sure we are following our compass.

I have to say that I pick up a lot of books (from personal success to mathematical tomes) and read them over a period of a week to a month, but not this book. This book is so engrossing that I finished it in two days! Peter Kash really hit a note inside me when he talked about the coincidences and serendipity in eveyone's life. When you look at the world the way Peter Kash does everything begins to become clear and you can't help but to look forward to everyday, to meet new people and to appreciate your family and the people you know well. I have recommended this book as a Must read to all of my friends and I recommend it to anyone who is trying to get a "lucky break" on their way to the top! I can assure you that this is not "fluff" or New Age "Gobbledygook". This is a book written from the "gut" from a solid, successful, entrepeneur, who comes across - not as a know it all - but of someone who has learned a lot of secrets on how to make your own luck. Truly a life altering book for this reader.

In Make Your Own Luck, Peter Kash proves a wise storyteller of moral fables from Wall Street that illustrate his obsession with showing that values are the foundation of achieving the successful destiny we desire. Hidden within this "rough roadmap" of success tactics in the world of finance are many gems of sage advice for seeking the deeper meanings found while pursuing success. The link between professional pursuit and spiritual fulfillment are indeed mutually bound together as Kash reminds us thoughout this marvelous celebration of the sweetness of human life. The book eloquently weaves together a sense of wholeness and purpose for our daily pursuits. It was profoundly uplifting to hear the voice of humility and gratitude spoken by a successful financier. Kash
has triumphed on Wall Street. He was among the first to recognize the advent of a new age in medical science. He was successful in creating companies using the new tools of molecular science to offer hope to people dying of cancer, and suffering from diabetes and autoimmune diseases. The resounding compulsion with tying human endeavor to proper values makes it less surprising that this seasoned entrepreneur chose (a key value in Kash's world)biotechnology-an "industry" that alleviates human suffering.
As a physician involved in both the clinical and research worlds of medicine I felt a strong human bond with the author. His practical advice alone is a helpful guide for anyone trying to achieve success in any endeavor that requires human contact. Understanding the Web of Life and the opportunities inherent in this human connectedness is a worthwhile task for anyone. What motivated me to internalize the advice in this practical B-school course was its emphasis on seeing opportunities for improving ourselves, others and the world around us in every one of our pursuits. It is uplifting to see that for Kash, success tactics are intimately bound to strategies that recognize our obligations and responsibilities to others. We create the Web of Life through our actions.
I think that Make Your Own Luck should be read by all first year medical residents. Kash, in his work-day reality of corporate finance and return on investment, provides a higher meaning to the pursuit of success. This message should be at the basis of every human encounter in the health care profession. I toast Kash for reminding all of us that supporting the tactics that make us successful must be a strategy rooted in gratitude for the chance to join the Web of Life.

Kash has given us a grand tour of the Web of Life --- all those critical life lessons no teacher can teach. This is not an erudite, scholarly text, nor a "how to" get rich book. Instead, it's so much more --- a rich, textured tapestry reminding us how important it is to do what we enjoy doing, and to enjoy what we find ourselves doing. I read this straight through in one setting --- it's that captivating! If we all carry away one or two lessons that enrich our lives, we will have gained far more than we bargained for. Thank you for this great book!

I am a CPA and attorney in practice for over forty years. I have been involved with the financial lives of many successful businesses and their management. This has given me great insight into what kind of skills are essential to succeed in today's business world. Mr. Kash has compiled and put into a lively and fast read format those very skills, and they turn out to be the same as those required for success in our personal lives as well.

This book should be required reading not only in every business school in America, but in every high school classroom. What's more, it's not only for the student and the young. At any age, if this kind of thinking and awareness of opportunity and how to take advantage of opportunity has not been developed, it's not too late. Mr. Kash's book will open our eyes.

It's a great gift, especially in these troubled times, and will be appreciated for years.

It's been a long time since I have read a book that has inspired me as this one did. Peter Kash's anecdotes and "war-stories" demonstrate that we all can get ahead, as long as we are always looking out for how each of us can seize even the most innocuous of opportunities. This book shows us all what can be achieved but even more importantly represents a guide to how to make our own luck. I personally want to thank the author for changing my life and for his work in funding those companies that create the life-saving medicines that make all of our lives better!!! I would recommend this book for just about everyone...I have ordered over 150 copies and plan to give them out to all my employees!

This insightful and inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who wants to be successful in life, and not just business or a career, but successful as a human being. Peter Kash visited Pace University, where I work as an administrator, and gave a spirited lecture to our grad and undergrad students in which he sighted many of the anecdotes that are featured in this book. The students were so responsive to his lecture that many of them started following up on the suggestions he made to them, and organizing these ideas into action via student clubs etc. This book will help any reader to positively focus on the opportunities that life presents and learn how to make the most of them.

After reading this book, I feel ready to go out and create my own destiny. This is a wonderful account on how everyday actions and decisions can create the life you want.

Peter Morgan Mash seems to be one of those people upon whom good fortune shines. Just when he's about to lose a big deal, chance rears its beautiful head to help him on his way; just when he's about to give up on meeting a key potential investor, he ends up stuck in the elevator with him. To what does Mash attribute his good fortune? Simple kindness, integrity and personal values. By stressing these personal attributes, he says that anyone can benefit from the kindness of life. We from getAbstract recommend this book to anyone convinced that the universe is a basically friendly place.

"Smart people learn from their mistakes. Wise people learn from other people's mistakes." Peter Kash has been generous enough to share his personal anecdotes on his successes and failures. The advice he provides is invaluable. Why would anyone want to "reinvent the wheel" when you can buy a book with an easy to read manual? A must read for anyone who wants to maximize their efforts and minimize their mistakes on the road to success.