# An op-ed by Research Scholar Robert Frank on the relationship between luck and success

1 Faculty News August 4, 2012 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/business/of-luck-and-success-economic-view.html) -- "Of course, we should keep celebrating the talented, hard-working people who have succeeded in their businesses or careers. But the research provides an important moral lesson: that these people might also do well to remain more humbly mindful of their own good fortune."

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