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...stumble. To put it another way, Can Google maintain its success and remain true to the ideals that made it so popular? These are the guys who adopted as their informal corporate motto "Don't be evil." Sure, analysts in recent years have asked frequently whether Google's luck has run out, and yet the company kept thriving. But its vulnerability was plainly evident two weeks ago when jittery investors cashed out en masse after it reported an 82% increase in its fourth-quarter profit (below the market's expectations) and again after Google said it was launching a heavily...
...extent that they are, it may not be egotism as much as an insistence on doing things their way. (The pair sometimes celebrates big Google milestones by going out to Burger King.) "We've obviously been successful," says Brin. "But there's been a lot of luck...
...name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into a business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to license their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their...
...unpredictable factor of opportunity that differentiates the outcome of our lives. The important lesson I got from Time's report on the secrets of ambition is that superachievers in life do not waste the opportunities they get but use them to excel. They take advantage of good luck and combine that with love for their work and the desire to get ahead of everyone else. Vijay V. Muthye Raipur, India...
...each of you will think of yourself as ambassadors for America." The athletes ? most of them unknowns, all of them giddy ? snapped pictures of each other, and of each other snapping pictures. "See you at home," Mrs. Bush said as she left after a final group shot. "Lots of luck...