While I firmly believe that one helps 'make their own luck', saying that chance/luck/fate/what-have-you plays no role is silly at best. At worst, it tends to c

While I firmly believe that one helps 'make their own luck', saying that chance/luck/fate/what-have-you plays no role is silly at best. At worst, it tends to convince 'winners' that they had almost everything to do with their victories, and correspondingly that the 'losers' also bear almost all of the blame for their defeats. It's easy to say that someone should have simply worked harder when you didn't notice that they had to work hard simply to escape the grasp of bad luck and circumstance to limp to the starting line...