Luck Requires Hard Work

Monday, 16 March 2009 06:38

Posted March 16, 2009

Sometimes you just get lucky.

Of course, many people are not aware that luck requires a lot of work. You need to make sure you are at the right place at the right time to be its recipient. We were very lucky to be a part of the TMX Elmo phenomenon with the 10th anniversary of the now famous Tickle Me Elmo. But five years of invention and discovery, perspiration and inspiration prior to that prepared us for that good fortune. Good fortune favors the prepared mind.

Much of our work involves trying to identify a mechanism, a technology, a phenomenon to investigate and explore and see what we can do with it and how it can be used. Every day, or at least every week, or hopefully every month, we hope to discover something truly new and exciting with a potential application in a range of products.

Our hydrogen rocket technology is an example of one such discovery. And having developed the rocket, the H2 powered lawnmowers, power tools, etc over a period of years of R&D, prepared us to to be lucky enough to get an Army research grant.

I often tell people, if they are interested, or even if they are not, that our business strategy boils down to being lucky. Each year, for 25 years and counting, we just manage to get lucky. But I guess it is all the hard work and hard thinking we do that prepares us for the good fortune that finds its way to our door.

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