[wyager]

You can't win if you don't play. It's not like successful entrepreneurs were just sitting on their asses and success smote them like a lightning bolt.

Yes, there's a lot of luck involved, but it takes hard, risky work that most people aren't willing to put in just to have a chance at capturing that luck.

[PhasmaFelis]

This is true, but I think it's important to remember that you really do need both hard work and luck. The insidious American myth is that hard work is the one and only ingredient to success. The implication, of course, is that anyone who doesn't succeed must be lazy or otherwise undeserving, no matter how diligently they actually worked.

[svdree]

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."