Great! Glad we can just discount an extreme attention to detail but also the ability to look past the trees to see the forest. I'm sure that having the knack

Great! Glad we can just discount an extreme attention to detail but also the ability to look past the trees to see the forest. I'm sure that having the knack for seeing an opportunity and jumping at it is pretty much just a blip on the radar. And the ability to convince your friends & coworkers that your dream is do-able and great is second to just shrug luck. There are some billionaires who inherited their money. There are some who lucked out with investments. Your last statement makes no sense. What sets them apart from the rest of the population definitely does involve their "wonderful qualities". Sure, luck plays a big role in things. It takes a combination of other things too: hard work, an unwillingness to settle for "meh, good enough", an ability to convince other people (employees, investors) to believe in you and the ability to know your own weaknesses and bring in people to solve those weaknesses. Let's not just lump these all into the "and the rest" category.