Smart Luck & the Seven Other
Qualities of Great Entrepreneurs

By Andrew Davidson
With Photographs by Harry Borden
Financial Times / Pearson Education
December 2002
ISBN: 0-273-65265-6
273 Pages, Illustrated, 6 3/4" x 8 1/4"
$39.50 Paper Original

OUT OF PRINT

New edition: 0273681273

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Why does one entrepreneur succeed when another fails? What are the key characteristics that define Britain's top business builders? And what has Richard Branson's mother got to do with it all? In a laconic guide to the winners and wannabes of entrepreneurial Britain, award-winning writer Andrew Davidson tracks down the country's top wealth creators in their natural habitat. From multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis singing the blues (in his vast Warwickshire manor) to Voyage-trousered James Dyson explaining why failure is important, from Anita Roddick chanting Better Naked Than Nike to Sir Alan Sugar talking tough in Mayfair, Davidson's trip provides an insightful route-map to success today as he identifies eight key traits that define the great entrepreneur. And reticence (just what does Richard Branson ask the author in an Athens nightclub?) probably isn't one of them…

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