What do you define as successful? Purely by financial success or does it include a good work/family life balance with kids etc?
And then there are the 'sales type'-guys if you know what I mean. They just talk and do: have their finances more or less straight, have a family, lots of social connections, ... .
I agree that both thinking and doing is best (as hopefully most here are doing). But if I have to choose, I would choose doing over thinking.