Your success will be based upon how persistent you are, not how lucky you are.

Was Bill Gates lucky?  Or Donald Trump, or Richard Branson, or even Oprah?  Did any of those people become the successful people that they are because they are lucky? No, I don’t think they did.  I think they pushed and tried and never gave up, and most of all, they believed in themselves.  They probably didn’t take no for an answer or, if they were faced with what looked like a concrete wall in front of them either found a way to climb over, go underneath or plow straight through.

That’s the kind of person I want to be.  Don’t get me wrong, if my powerball number were to come up, I wouldn’t be turning the money down.  But winning the lottery wouldn’t make me successful, it would just make me rich.  Finding something I believe in, or something I want, and working at it, and never giving up, that is what would make me successful.