Local saying: Daig ang masipag ng maswerteng tamad (a lucky sloth is usually better off than a hard worker). Must be a terrible joke, but ultimately I believe hard work + opportunity = success.
This is more of a combination of the two, which I feel is most certainly the best pathway to success. People tend to give too little credit to luck (especially if they've worked hard as well), but here's the way I see it: you can have a lot of people who put in the same amount of work and are equally as talented, but the luckier ones are the ones who meet more success.
However, if you had to pick only one, your saying would seem to hint that luck outweighs effort and that's a sentiment that has been pretty common through the years (former Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez - "I'd rather be lucky than good.") I'm interested in seeing which of the two would be more desired if a single choice between the two was presented.
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Local saying: Daig ang masipag ng maswerteng tamad (a lucky sloth is usually better off than a hard worker). Must be a terrible joke, but ultimately I believe hard work + opportunity = success.
This is more of a combination of the two, which I feel is most certainly the best pathway to success. People tend to give too little credit to luck (especially if they've worked hard as well), but here's the way I see it: you can have a lot of people who put in the same amount of work and are equally as talented, but the luckier ones are the ones who meet more success.
However, if you had to pick only one, your saying would seem to hint that luck outweighs effort and that's a sentiment that has been pretty common through the years (former Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez - "I'd rather be lucky than good.") I'm interested in seeing which of the two would be more desired if a single choice between the two was presented.