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by jellicle 3030 days ago
It usually goes the other way around: people who say that luck isn't important are precisely those that have been very lucky. They have no self-recognition of it. Rather, because they've achieved success with little effort, they have learned and believe that anyone making as little effort as they know they did should also be as successful, so by definition if you aren't successful, you must be lazy as hell.

"I'm a self-made man! I turned that $100 million I inherited from my Dad into a billion by picking the right investment firm!"