My response to that, and I got this from some movie I can't remember, is that I prefer to think I create my own luck. Let's hypothesize that opportune situations arise for all people at various times. All things being equal, only a select few people, like Bill Gates, or Mark Cuban, become significantly wealthy. I feel this may appear to many to be luck on the surface, but that there was actually a lot of unseen maneuvering and positioning (i.e. hard work) going on behind the scenes possibly for years which allows such individuals to capitalize on their lucky opportunity when it presents itself.
