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Yes, that is quite obviously luck. People don't get to choose your parents. You were lucky enough to have parents that taught you about investing at an early age.

Hard work and luck are both parts of success. Humans just have a tendency to downplay the luck aspect.

Yes. You were lucky to be born into a family with money to invest and to grow up with a father around. Not everyone has those advantages.

Not everyone has those advantages, but many people do and never get rich.

That would suggest it's much more than just luck.

I'm not saying it's all luck. Hard work is important. Luck is also important. It's pointless to argue over which is more important in my opinion.

However, a lot of successful people (including the person I was originally responding to) downplay the role that luck plays and exaggerate the role that hard work plays.

Yes, you had a Dad that could teach you how to invest at a young age. Also, you had a Dad that had extra money to invest.