Great piece..TLDR is this: 'Everything is luck' Yup. Things have to fall in place - even in the example of Nebraska lightning rod scam, people had to move out

Great piece..TLDR is this: 'Everything is luck' Yup. Things have to fall in place - even in the example of Nebraska lightning rod scam, people had to move out of sod houses to framed ones for the demand to be there. You are just a cog in the wheel. The economy, regulations, market fad or flavour of the month, competitor missteps, timing all these make "great salesmen".