This has always been an interesting question. You can look at luck as someone's luck in particular, or people's luck in general. The odds that any one person

This has always been an interesting question. You can look at luck as someone's luck in particular, or people's luck in general. The odds that any one person at a craps table rolls a 7 first are low, but the odds that someone at the table rolls a 7 first are a lot higher. Same thing with success in the way you mention it.