After more than half a century in the energy business, her advice has proven itself to be spot-on time and time again. My failures? I never have any doubt whom they can be traced back to. My successes? Most likely the same guy.""
Truly insane.
What is absurd is the believe that _everything_ is related to your own actions and thus that you deserve all the good and or bad that comes your way.
What bugs me about the quote is that its a perversion of a sort of stoicism towards which I am much more positively disposed. But the stoic is not so silly as to believe they are responsible for everything that happens to them. They believe they are responsible for _responding_ to it and ultimately not responsible for where it comes from. A true stoic accepts material success and failure with the same attitude: I must make the most of this situation to do good.
That is a respectable attitude, though it perhaps undersells our capacity to actually change the world. This attitude is just intellectual laziness and quite self serving as well.
While it's immensely valuable to have factual information and put that information to use, truth (or objectivity, we could say) is less important in one's mindset throughout life.
Take those who believed they were destined by God to succeed: they include Rockefeller, who developed pipelines to bring kerosene (and thus light) to the masses for cheaper, and even a favorite in the history of tech, Ada Lovelace.
The validity of their beliefs, or lack thereof, had no impact on their inspiration to pursue their goals or their ultimate successes.