Telegraph has created its list of top 10 Nobel prize winners. Last on the list is Sir Clive Granger who was an econometrician for his analysis of time series data with his colleague Rob. Being modest as all great people are, he credits all his success to the lucky breaks he got in his autobiography. He never made to Cambridge and Oxford, but pipped a lot of them to Nobel prize, he concludes

" My story ends with a recipe for success. Do not start too high on the ladder, move to a good but not top university, work hard, have a few good ideas, chose good collaborators (I had over eighty in my career), attract some excellent students, wait twenty years or so, and then retire. It worked for Rob and I."