“Success is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity.”
Anonymous

“Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s’avisa de dire: Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile“
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, ‘This is mine,’ and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.) —

Edward De Bono went as far as to say that intelligence itself could even trap you and prevent you from solving problems.
See, one form of intelligence is the inherent ability to argue your point. According to De Bono, the smarter you are, the better you are at verbal justification, so this will in fact prevent you from learning and problem solving. It binds you to an unhealthy way of living—you just talk yourself into it.