# Michael Lewis Princeton Commencement Remarks

<http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-lewis-princeton-commencement-remarks-2012-6>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

These are two of his key points: He said that success is "always rationalized" because successful people don't want to acknowledge that they were actually just really lucky. What's more is, the world doesn't want to realize that either; Lewis told the Princeton graduates that if they are successful then they should recognize that they also were very lucky. That said, "You owe a debt, not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky."

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