[buzzardbait]

Success comes from hard work and perseverence.

Success comes from being at the right place at the right time.

Both of these statements can be true at the same time.

[ErigmolCt]

I would say that hard work and perseverance create the foundation, but timing and opportunity often determine the outcome.

[buzzardbait]

Yes. Although I suspect many would disagree since there's an entire subreddit dedicated to them! r/antiwork

[ErigmolCt]

Hard work alone isn’t always enough

[eevilspock]

Combined with the willingness to exploit those two things to hoard as much as you can, without qualms about taking advantage of cheap goods and cheap labor even from those who work as hard as you but get less because of economic/power/freedom asymmetries, without concern for the Mathews Effect (that wealth breeds wealth, that poverty breeds poverty)...