Are there any patterns that you feel underly the tremendous success of people like…

  • Bill Gates
  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google founders)
  • Walt Disney
  • Larry Ellison (founder Oracle)
  • John Reese (top Internet Marketing guru) d

In each case, these entrepreneurs had tremendous competition and left many others in their dust who were not able to achieve anywhere near the same level of success.

Was it just chance or something more?

Is it one or more of…

  1. hard work
  2. persistance
  3. timing
  4. determination
  5. action orientation

Help us fill in the list…what do you think?