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"Businesses fail. Shit happens. Nothing is for sure." This is another way of saying luck is involved.

So it is fine for successful entrepreneurs to take other people's money if they acknowledge that skill alone isn't enough to become successful.

However it is deeply frustrating for somebody to claim their success was 100% skill while at the same time betting other people's money for their next venture, implicitly saying their future success is partially dependent on luck.



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