You do realize your comment is partly retarded right? While I strongly believe that stuff can happen whether its the right time/place or not, I also strongly believe positioning yourself for things to happen is important too. Yes, persistence, hard work, and vision are all important.

However your comment or rather your example is blatantly bad. For starters, they brought back Steve Jobs who had massive connections beyond any of the other CEOs who were leading Apple at the time, and definitely more than most other people out there. Most people aren't in that position and surely don't have the type of influence Steve Jobs does. He's bigger now than he was in the 90s by all measures but make no mistake, Steve Jobs was an icon even back then. To use Apple as an argument for this is just plain bad.