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It's always easy to say it's luck. But I don't think it is. You created opportunity. And that's the key thing. Create opportunities. As many as possible. I did something similar. Started with a dollar a day. Ended up with several thousands a day. The only thing I consider luck is the fact that a grew up in a stable family in a rich country where I got faced with computers at a very early age. I received enough time to explore my desires. Never felt any pressure or whatsoever. But the businesses I created where my own work.



There's an irony that people don't even recognise that they are already relatively more wealthy than much of the world when talking about "rich people".

We do create our own luck to a certain degree and for anyone born in a first world country we have so many opportunities all around us - many simply choose poorly.


It's astounding that you try to spin this as him "creating opportunity". This is dumb luck, plain and simple.




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