New Rules for the New Economy suggests that we might even learn something from those plucky life forms that exploded on the scene a half-billion years ago.
But whereas in the fable the scorpion stings the frog causing them both to drown, this story had a happy ending as the two plucky animals put aside old differences to fight the elements.
The very reputation of being strong-willed, plucky, and indefatigable is of priceless value.
Back then it was just a plucky little restaurant idea rather than the godfather of the entire global gastro movement it is now.
a plucky lampooner of the administration.
After 15 years, the plucky teen with blonde hair and an orange jumpsuit grew to be a mainstay in the lives of many readers.
David and Goliath: The plucky rodent decides he's not going to let Felix eat him.
The three points kept United on top of the Barclays Premier League but Ferguson admitted he feared it would not be his side's day for long periods against a plucky Reading.
Admiral Nelson's encounter as a plucky 14-year-old midshipman fighting only with the butt of his musket is surely a myth, but others are true.
By the time we had gone seven or eight hundred miles up the river, I had learned to be a tolerably plucky up-stream steersman, in daylight, and before we reached st.
The women here are generally either dead, ornamental or both, though I liked Michelle Ye as a plucky deputy with a ready-for-action Bob.
Thanks to a plucky woman from Frenchtown, Montana, we now know how to deal with at least one animal menace.