Are rich people smart or lucky?

Question

how and why

Answer 1

Some are Smart and some are Lucky its a combination between both. =)

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Answer 2

some are smart, some are lucky

like bill gates, smart guy

like paris hilton, does anyone know what she even does for a living

like donald trump, hes a ingenius con man, thats luck combined with smarts

Answer 3

they are lucky to have smart people working for them.

Answer 4

Some are smart and earn their money while others are lucky and have rich familys

Answer 5

some are born with rich parents and such. and some are smart/conniving/cunning

Answer 6

start of the line --usually theyre smart (unless they win a lottery)and then on and on they have they're child spoil and one or more generation they're poor as h**l.

i c that alot

Answer 7

Mostly smart, some are lucky (lotto winners and such).  Read the book The Bell Curve, it outlines the process of how the smart become rich and the stupid stay poor and whatnot.

Answer 8

A MIXTURE OF BOTH. HAHA.

Answer 9

Neither one. They probably inherited it. <}:-})

Answer 10

Its who you know in business but you are a busy person.

Answer 11

if they are born rich they are lucky. if they were born average or poor and then made it rich, they are smart

Answer 12

Both, unless they where born into their money.

Answer 13

more people are born into it then actually work for it so i would have to say "Lucky"  They also are lucky that they can afford a good four year college and that makes them smart so you have to be lucky first and then smart.

Answer 14

They are both, lucky to be born into wealth. and smart to be able to work with it and keep it. Some are entrepreneurs, and see a niche in the market that they can fill, and become well off. The Rich are often Philanthropists, you will find that they often build hospital wings or rooms, for the sick. They help with scholarships for the students, and help by providing jobs

I do not consider that greed.

Answer 15

Both. A lot of rich people probably worked really hard to get where they are today. Lawyers and doctors are smart people.

A lot are also lucky, because they could have hit the lottery to have made them that way, or had a family member that had money pass away and leave it to them.

I was born into a lower class family, but I'm working very hard to make it so that I don't stay in the lower class. I'd like to consider myself smart.

Answer 16

lucky+greedy

Answer 17

Because their smartness got them to be rich in some cases.

Answer 18

well their probabbly brought by faith, and destined to be..... but it comes with a price, and it comes with many other things, such as, pain, problems, sorrows, etc..... .being rich is like being rich in the spirit i think that's the richness I want....but know this...it is alot easier to push a camel into an eye of  a needle than for a rich man to walk with GOD......and into his kingdom.....................

Answer 19

Lucky.... they had a dream to be rich and acted upon it and didn't stop until their mission was accomplished. Most ppl are satisfied with just living comfortably... this is not acceptable to the rich or ppl trying to be rich.

Answer 20

Donald Trump: Smart

Paris Hilton: Lucky

Answer 21

the rich spoiled people - lucky

the rich people who give there money to charities when they die instead of giving it to their kids because they want their kids to earn their own money (Bill Gates) - smart

Answer 22

1st of all they are smart and if they won the lottery they are lucky and then there's that drive we call greed but it could also be called 'fear' of poverty and the desire to leave loved ones in a better financial position than they had growing up.My mom and her 3 siblings started out pretty well off and then her mom died giving birth to her baby sister.Her father became a lost soul and she had to take over the finances to keep them all alive. Her father decided to drink alot so she became smart and got every one back on the financial tract by being smart...

Answer 23

Have you ever read the book, "The Secret?"   You may find your answer in there....:)

Answer 24

Both... you have to be lucky enough to have your intelligence recognized by a money making system.

Answer 25

Neither.  For someone to be rich, they have to work really hard for a long time.  Smart doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it - one of the dumbest boys I knew in high school was a multi-millionaire before he was 30 years old.  He wasn't lucky, either - he spent a lot of time working, learning how to run a business, and then finding a business that he was good at.

Rich people have a good work ethic and put a lot of time into whatever it is they do to make money.

People who have inherited their wealth (like Ted Kennedy or Al Gore) or married it (like John Kerry) usually don't understand what it takes for a lower-class or middle-class person to work themselves up.  That's why you hear so much rhetoric coming from them about how rich people are just "lucky".  No.....if you worked for your wealth, luck had nothing to do with it.

Answer 26

Most of them are lucky. They're born into a rich family. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.

Answer 27

usualy they ae smart because they invented somethin or tey are lucky beacuse there  dad  or mom were smart

Answer 28

It depends on what makes a person feel rich in their life. I am not rich with money but I am rich in many other ways. I am smart and stupid. I dont really believe in luck. I guess I didnt really answer your qts. Sorry

Answer 29

most of them r just born with a golden spoon in their mouth from their grandparents but most of them r smart like have a good job datz y they get rewarded 4 wat they do by bein rich! take paris hilton 4 an example she was born rich neva had 2 do work a day in her life except on dat tv show

Answer 30

Well, I confess I think Rich People as a class should be abolished.

That being said, some are smart (Bill Gates) and some lucky (Donald Trump. Dubyah and Oprah Winfrey).

The latter should be sent to the Alaskan WLF to drill for oil, if they persist in a) either demanding it (W) or being on TV (Trump and Oprah).

The former (like Gates and minor rich Hollywood types) DO donate lots of $ to charity but it's not enough. I'm of the socialist mindset, esp NOW that we've been crippled by Capitalist GREED, that if they  want their 15 houses and collection of antique cars, etc., they should WORK for it , dammit, like the rest of us!!!

Answer 31

LUCKY.......................!!!!!!!!!!!!...