[tankenmate]

And yet I have met, and I suspect that you also have probably met, people that have worked their proverbial behind off their whole lives and have wound up with not much. There is more to success that hard work. In the converse I have met some people who haven't and still don't work hard and have been very very successful.

The true key to success is to work smarter not necessarily harder (working harder can sometimes help in a relative sense), and also a some luck.

But all those who work hard and are also successful, I have found, tend to diminish the input of luck and information advantage (i.e. it's not what you know but who you know etc).