I mean, it's always the same. Be smart, be ambitious, be persistent, be from a financially-secure background, be well-connected, and be lucky. Works every tim

I mean, it's always the same. Be smart, be ambitious, be persistent, be from a financially-secure background, be well-connected, and be lucky. Works every time! It's possible to be deficient in one metric, if compensated by the others. The simplest and most common multiplier for "successful" (e.g. many anonymous people here) vs "notoriously successful" (e.g. people we talk about by last name) is extra luck (and a taste for the spotlight!). The only "trick" here is to maximize your luck potential by leveraging the other factors. They call it "making your own luck", but that's just a clever way of saying "cultivate and grow your available resources".