Neither. Success is never determined by hard work. It's always a combination of many other factors and at best hard work may contribute a little. Otherwise the

Neither. Success is never determined by hard work. It's always a combination of many other factors and at best hard work may contribute a little. Otherwise the billions of very hard working people struggling to feed their families would be extremely successful. But that's not a story that you put on a poster, so people prefer to believe the lie that killing themselves chasing "success" is a good thing.