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Have you seen the true-story movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" by Will Smith? Do you believe it can happen to anyone or is it a one time lucky shot?

"The Pursuit of Happyness" is a2006 award-winning American biographical drama film based on Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with homelessness. The movie is based on a true story about a man named Christopher Gardner. Gardner has invested heavily in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner". He feels like he has made these devices. However, they do not sell as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. As Gardner tries to figure out how to sell them, his wife leaves him, he loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Forced to live out in the streets with his son, Gardner is now desperate to find a steady job; he takes on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive pay, he needs to go through6 months of training, and to sell his devices.

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Question added by Khatim Abbas Seed , BUSINESS CONSULTANT , Google
Date Posted: 2014/04/23
Alema Misilo
by Alema Misilo , Officer for calibration , MIBO Komunikacije d.o.o. Sarajevo

everyone is hammersmith of his/hers own luck! .... old people all over a planet have so much of wisdom in short sentences we call SAYINGS ........ if you try to discover reasons for such a wisdom you will find a long stroies, just like movie you mentioned ........ therefore I know it can happen to anyone :)

Shihab Baasher
by Shihab Baasher , Regional project Coordinator , Binzagr Company

I dont believe luck has anything to do with it. In life, you either grab every little thread to get to your goal, or look at it and say "its not gonna happen!". The character was a personification of struggle, determination, believing and corage, in my humble opinion, if all those gathered in a person, everything can be possible.

RAJESH KK KESHVA MURTHY
by RAJESH KK KESHVA MURTHY , SALES EXECUTIVE , MTS (MICROSOFT TRANSACTION SERVER)

I DONT BELIVE THAT IS ONE TIME LUCKY SHOT BECAUSE NOTHING COMES WITH LUCK ITS ALL ABOUT THE HARDWORK WE DO AND1% IT MAY DEPEND ON LUCK THAT VERY HARDLY, IN THIS WORD NOT DONT GET ANYTHING THING EASLIY FOR THAT WE NEED TO WORK HARDER AND HARDER TO SAY TAHT WAS A LUCK MAN WHICH CAME THROUGHT BUT INDEED IT WAS ALL ABOUT OUR HARD WORK AND NOTHING ELSE. 

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by Deleted user

The moral of story,When there is a will there is a way....Related movies, if interested

Blind Side.Pele,Wolf of wall street.How a simple person, become a legend...I believe, yes it happen, and it happen often,Consider expamles like Bill Gate, Steve Jobs, Micheal Jordon, Oprah Winfrey,,,,Once a failure, now a legends.

Mohd. Ali(Boxer),Sylvester Stallion(Actor, fame Rocky and Rambo)Several examples.

Hope you understand,

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