Bhargava: Business success requires doing everything right and getting lucky
Manoj Bhargava · 5-Hour Energy: Manoj Bhargava · Mar 13, 2017 · at 19:23
5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava discusses the early distribution challenges of launching a retail product.
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“Business is one of those things, you have to do everything right, and then you have to get lucky. I mean, anybody says that, that luck is not part of it, it's just arrogant.”
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