Time and chance happen to all.

PRAY FOR GRACE......

Tunadexy:
Let's clarify this pls.
I think success is luck.
My view though, I stand to be convinced.

Smart work plus God equal success

From my assessment
Luck 50%
Smart work 30%
Hard work 20%
Grace,God factor and all those rubbish 0.000000001%

bro let me answer ur ? Hard work is not realy defined, hardwork comes with planing, planing come with survey,survey comes with,strategizing, strategezing come with implementing. Last last every work is as hard as a rock you determination to succed make it soft as a fresh loaf of bread, only when preparation meet hardwork thats when luck come in play

brownbib:
Time and chance happen to all.

Fellas this submission right here is the true answer. Ecclesiastes 9:11

the summary is, work smart

Hard work
Going extra mile (nobody ever becomes anything substantial and noticeable not doing beyond what is required...ask any top-performer in any field)

Smart work
a 21-century coinage, possibly, is of more mental exertion in order to sweat less, because the labour of the foolish must surely wear him out... But smart work is not a walk in the park, reason why many don't do it. G.B. Shaw said many will rather die than think...but a caveat is that smart work still needs hard work to fly. Edison said success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. If only smart work is what is necessary, success coaches won't be preaching that to become an ace or a legend of any skill, you will need about 10,000 hours of investment in it. So hard right? That's why many more are average than being a genius in their calling

Luck...an overrated luck.
Nature is guided by law, not by luck. So waiting for luck is as wasting away. Because laws guide life, that's why it is predictable, Luck is not. What could be nearly interpreted as luck from Ecclesiastes view is 'Time and Chance'. Thus my own definition of success is being ready when your opportunity comes. Preparation meeting opportunity. Before you wait for luck ask yourself if C. Ronaldo became so via luck or work? If Edison made his inventions by wishful thinking or mental plus hard labour, if leaders of thoughts became so accidentally.
It is a fact that many were born great, many had greatness thrusted upon them while some paved way into their own greatness...the last on the list is always the most enduring, inspirational and repeatable because the know-how has been cultivated.


Luck can be easily misunderstood in this part of the world especially where people can easily lay their hands on fortune they didn't work out themselves...but it is not akways the ideal way of hitting success.
No serious person waits for luck or interprets success as luck. Success has principles, luck does not, and the earlier you know and work out the rules of success, the faster and luckier you can get.

You need all of the above to survive and then succeed!

OP, kindly tell us what your definition of Luck is because for some persons, what you refer to HardWork/Smartwork is referred to as LUCK. So, what is your definition of Luck

Is anything equivalent to success? A lot of factors are woven together before the cloak of success is produced for anyone to wear, and these factors differ from case to case.

Since success is often defined in terms of wealth, riches and fame, a person who enjoys all that by virtue of inheritance and association (relation to a wealthy and famous person) can also be termed "successful", and such a person could easily tell you that smart work and hardwork are irrelevant rubbish.

If however, you're talking about success in terms of achieving the goals you set for yourself, then success becomes relative and subjective, and the individual becomes the only one to decide whether or not he's successful. No one else is a qualified judge in the matter.

Either way, NOTHING guarantees success.

So, I'm going with LUCK. Thank you very much.

luck cannot be compared to grace...the latter supersedes all, I have seen the hardworking, those who do smart work.. and those who are lucky at success on a blue moon... but grace can provide all you need without much effort if God wants it to happen...

Tunadexy:
Let's clarify this pls.
I think success is luck.
My view though, I stand to be convinced.

there is nothing like luck. What people call luck is a combination of thinking smart, working hard, being at the right place and time and knowing when to maximize opportunity. If I get a job paying millions, some will say it’s luck but they forget that I may have had to write aptitude test and interviews and all these require the right preparation. Extend it to business, getting and knowing the right connection isn’t easy. So, when these connection help some call it luck, no it’s not. If you have been getting things done by other people, you can’t be termed successful. The smart work you mentioned is a combination of hard work and talent. Hard work can beat talent when talent fails to work hard and does not have the right Attitude. Talent is a combination of mouth and wisdom. Have you ever seen someone who can’t communicate and does not have the wisdom excell? Even a dumb and deaf person must know how to communicate. So success in life is a combination of hard work, talent and opportunity.

TheGreenLand:
GODS PLAN

The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.... Proverbs 10:22

Is your grandpa a pastor?


Anyways you are correct.
God's Plan

Tunadexy:
Let's clarify this pls. I think success is luck. My view though, I stand to be convinced.

all I know is hard work pays

My brother. Real men dony believe in luck, they believe in cause and effect.
And I dont even believe in luck, I believe in maths and science which makes you smart.
Success is smartwork.

Some people sit in there homes earning real money compare to a brick layer working in the sun for a whole day. We need to be smart

Can someone briefly differential between smart work and hard work

IamaNigerianGuy:
All three. But if I were to choose, HARDWORK will be my first option.

Think of all the intelligent students who are confident of their mental powers and end up working for 'dullards'. Consider that fortune will knock but the unprepared will fail to answer. A hard-working man will not go hungry, indeed, he may grow rich. Look around you at rich men. Alaba dealers, BDC operators, importers, How many of them are geniuses ? Very few. But they get up early and go to bed late. Dangote works 18 hours a day. Adenuga is always in the office.

HARDWORK is a talent on it's own.

Garry Kasparov

and otedola is always grooving

success is not an exact science, but doing somethings would greatly increase your odd. First on the requirement should be great work ethics (Ability to see out a task). Gaining that discipline to stick to a task until the end is only possessed by a handful of people and those who do inevitably achieve success.

with discipline and great work ethics, you can get your life in motion hoping for success. But what is going to bring you success is spoting opportunities around you and being able to act on them. Now this is smartness. A lot of people have great and smartly thought out ideas, but how many of them have the capacity to implement. Only a few can successfully execute a big idea, and that knowledge comes from years of hard work on the background. So, you can see this whole thing is nested. HARD WORK! HARD WORK!

A third major requirement for big success would be building networks. We fail in most things because we are not in the circle of people with the capacity to execute great ideas. Again, in the years of hardworking, building bridges, evolving, you build network of people you can assemble to execute great ideas. Still, this whole thing comes down to great work ethics. Nobody wants to associate with you if all you do is sleep in your pyjamas all day and think of great ideas.

Be smart for all anybody cares, nobody achieves great success without working out their asses. The idea of being smart and achieving success is just the imagination of lazy individuals. if you want to be successful, your surest means would be by inheritance, being born into riches. But if you are like most of us, your only chance is to get up and get hard. push yourself. burn your fingers. Master a skills, a trade, whatever it is you are doing, master it. If you dont like what you currently do, look for something else, stick with it and master it. Be the best of what you do. Then, success becomes inevitable.

Hmmm......Ecclesiastes has said it all...

Any of the three, the combination of two or a combination of all. My friend Joachim okai once said that "t
he road to success is vague but the road to failure is explicit; stop trying."

Smart and a combination of hard work.....but that should first be in a buoyant economy.

Tunadexy:
Let's clarify this pls.
I think success is luck.
My view though, I stand to be convinced.

Success by luck: 5%
Success by hardworking: 80%
Success by smartwork: 99.99%

combination of the three. simple...

Hardwork is equivalent to success, you can't be lazy and expect to be successful in life.

jeff1607:


and otedola is always grooving

Most of Otedola's businesses are not viable. He lives off his father's name, money he made before, and his relationship with Baba.

OK, let's analysis it this way, an advert say they needed a smart worker in a reputable organization, fifty people applied for the post and later went for an interview. Luckily, one person was picked. Now is it that all the fifty we're not smart enough than the lucky person. I think lucky superceed

To me I think hard work brings luck

God will give you luck and blessings if you are hard working

If you already have luck and you are not hard working then nothing for you

I will use the boxer example: one can achieve success through hard work [needed in the early parts of their career]. Hard work will lead to smart work because later in their years their bodies can't take much punishment in terms of training or combat, so they think up skills and plans to outsmart both their bodies and opponents.
Luck is a whole different ball game and benefits even the lazy. If one makes themselves readily available luck has a higher chance of shining on them than another who didn't put effort, anyway it still comes regardless.

Tunadexy:
Let's clarify this pls.
I think success is luck.
My view though, I stand to be convinced.

If you succeed by LUCK you will definitely fail again. To me, success is not Luck, Hardwork or Smartwork. SUCCESS is built on EXPERIENCE. There are two great forces that produce success in a man... First his Personal Faith, Second External Influence. If you succeed by Personal Faith but lack the ability to manage Negative External Influences you will Fail. Success happens when Opportunity meets Preparedness. Preparedness means Positioning oneself for success (Hardwork) while Opportunity is Luck. But this last definition still captures Personal Faith which is just First step to success. It is a long trip. Smart work is closer to that Word EXPERIENCE because it captures doing the right things at the right time in the right place in a manner that will generate the right results. The WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and HOW elements of success. Experience comes from many years of Hardwork but only few people get there. Whether there is recession or not, people on this level keep getting money, whether they go to work or vacation. They have learnt the principles of financial growth.