One would expect the richest Man in the world to also be the luckiest. The latter is simply not possible without the former. I do think he's also pretty smart, and very hardworking, but let's not pretend that lucky isn't 99.9% what it takes to be the richest man in the world. There is a ton of people out there that are just as smart, and just as hardworking, and none of them have 1/1000th Musk's wealth.