If you work hard, are you smart?

[doodab]

Hard work on it’s own will not in any way guarantee success.

Conversely, the lack of it will almost guarantee failure.

That's not to say that lots of hard working people aren't wasting their time. They almost certainly are. But there are a lot of lazy people wasting their potential as well.

[darrenb]

That's not to say that lots of hard working people aren't wasting their time. They almost certainly are. But there are a lot of lazy people wasting their potential as well.

I would be more worried about the great number of hard working people building missiles and exotic financial products of mass destruction than I would be about all the lazy people wasting their potential. Actually if everybody was as lazy as me, the world would be a much safer place.

How to Be Idle

[darrenb]

As an over 60, I agree with them however, nobody gets rich by working hard for other people;

What about Steve Ballmer? Or Tony Blair...