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ToraToraTora | 16:51 Fri 15th Nov 2013 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24959504
Now you'll have thousands of kids playing up doing nothing then hoping to "get lucky" when they leave. Nice one Cowell, underminded the education system in 5 minutes, genius!
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*undermined! doh!
some do get lucky, but they had an entrepreneurial spirit from the get go, like Richard Branson, most people are not like that. They need a good, solid education, one that gives them the tools to go out into a very competitive world, sadly many seem to have been let down by that system, shame that Grammar Schools are largely gone.
I am sure that this is a tongue-in-cheek comment which has lost itself in translation.

If Mr Gove had his finger anywhere near the pulse of young people these days, he would understand that no young person who knows who Simon Cowell is and has any interest in what he does, actually wants to be Simon Nowell, they only want to be X-Factor winners!
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well that's knoo Laybore for you emmie!
wasn't it Blair who said, education, education, education, wonder what he would make of the comments...
Clearly a tongue in cheek comment from Simon, some people really need to lighten up a little!!
and that is the biggest problem for many young people, aspiring to be an X factor contestant, or someone on TOWIE, as opposed to getting decent grades and aspiring to be a doctor, scientist, engineer. I could be wrong, but it does seem that all these reality shows makes people into celeb wanabees, so we are having to get our professional people from overseas...
which depletes those countries of doctors, nurses, engineers....
Actually I think it's rather refreshing to hear someone recognise the element of luck in their sucess.

Too often people at the top think that they're there entirely through their skill and work and judgement and if everybody else worked as hard as they did then they'd be sucessful too - quite an arrogant view

Oh Michael Gove - what a surprise.

In reality I'd say the key to success is to get lucky and have the skill to recognise when you have and the bravery to grab the opportunity to make the most of it.

Most of us get lucky - we don't all make the most of it
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Cowell or Gove Steve?
i think that the likes of Alan Sugar would say it was sheer hard graft that got him his millions, not luck
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Isnt it amazing how people that have made a fortune are hated by so many.
i don't hate anyone, and if he or Branson have millions through their effort then good luck to them
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\\\Actually I think it's rather refreshing to hear someone recognise the element of luck in their sucess.\\\

No, most of the successful people that i know recognise the part that luck plays "on top of hard work"

\\\Too often people at the top think that they're there entirely through their skill and work and judgement and if everybody else worked as hard as they did then they'd be sucessful too - quite an arrogant view \\

No, quite a realistic view.
Actually, if you substitute the word 'circumstances' for 'luck', it's probably more accurate.

All entrepreneurs possess the correct levels of drive and business acumen, but it is circumstances which fall the right way at the right time for them, that allow them to pursue their career path.

Richard Branson started a mail-order record business from a phone box - no-one could ever do that again, because there is no mail order, no record business, and no phone boxes!
i watched a programme about his, he was a student and did this from the flat, not from a phone box?
rather a different version. however he started he has made a packet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson
I think it's more to do with determination than luck. I'm sure Simon Cowell 's comments were fairly tongue-in-cheek. But if people choose to take them literally, that is their own stupidity-not his.
Simon Cowell left a few things out, he should have said 'be an @rsehole like me, then suck up to someone in the BBC so that they give you a highly overpaid job that amounts to nothing'

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