Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has `vision` or a trader is `talented`, but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist. `One of the smartest books of all time` Fortune `An iconoclastic tour de force ... nothing escapes his Exocets` Evening Standard `Brilliant` John Kay `Excellent and thought-provoking ... an entertaining book` Financial Times `Wall Street`s principal dissident` Malcolm Gladwell