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Certainly luck is a thing. But, essentially nobody lucks into success. They work their way into positions to take advantage of lucky breaks.

I consider myself pretty successful. I have busted my ass for 21 years to build a small business. I was lucky to have been raised in a wealthy part of the US (my family was dead broke, but I am in an area where there are people with money to buy what I'm selling). Simply being in the right place wouldn't have been enough. But, my work building a business was certainly aided by being in the right place.