Thought/Anecdote of the Day™©®

for July 17, 2004

On Credit For My Success

I’ve had a lot of success in my life: wealth, fame, power, love. But when people look towards the reason for all my success, they often chalk it up to the advantages I’ve enjoyed from my early childhood on. Few people give me much credit for my achievements.

To some extent that’s true. These days I do little more than keep an eye on my investments, play a little golf, and sleep with very sexy women. And it’s true that I can live this lifestyle because from the day I was born I’ve lived a life of wealth and leisure.

And so it is that a lot of people look at me and attibute my success to luck and fate. They look up at me from their jobs and the unsexy women they’re with and they say “He won the lottery when he was born.”

And they’re right. I did. 67 million dollars as the lone powerball winner. And that did take a lot of luck.

But I think it was also pretty balls-out that I took the initiative as a newborn to crawl out of the maternity ward and out of the hospital and then hitchike across state lines to buy a ticket.

So, you know, give credit where credit’s due and all that.

And let those hot chicks in on your way out.

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