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3,000 Entrepreneurs Say Luck Has Little to Do With Their Success

3,000 Entrepreneurs Say Luck Has Little to Do With Their Success
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Ask entrepreneurs how they built their businesses and they’ll likely credit talent and hard work. Luck is at the bottom of the list. In a scholarly survey that had 3,000 Swiss entrepreneurs rank the relative importance of six components of success, 78 percent put luck last.

Not shocking: Successful people believe their achievements are the product of their own industry rather than randomness. A sample of failed entrepreneurs would likely have found more people blaming bad fortune.