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Kirk Douglas had engineered his social life with the cynical goal of meeting the rich and powerful, he would have ignored this Lauren Bacall. But so cynical and narrow-focused an approach isn’t likely to produce good luck. The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky.
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Max Gunther (How to Get Lucky (Harriman Classics): 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life’s good breaks)