Some maybe, not all. Could you be confusing many of the traits you stated as self confidence with a pinch of greed & the need for power? Most of the people I have met that felt the world owes them a living don't amount to much.
Achieving success at what? If you are talking business..... I asked my husband who owns a modestly successful business (it's actually a practice). His answer was Passion. Without it, you don't have the rest.
That's gotta be the most focused cat I've ever seen. However, my answer to the original question would be "arrogance and an unwavering sense of entitlement." As a signmaker, I have personally dealt with literally thousands of different kinds of businesses. The successful businesspeople are not the ones with passion or ideas or any of these other virtues, sad to say. They are the ones who are dead-sure that the world DOES owe them a living. They are the narcississtic ones, willing to define and re-define the world from moment to moment, in whatever terms that best massage their own sense of self-importance. This is what is most rewarded in our society. Of course, good connections don't hurt either.
Some maybe, not all. Could you be confusing many of the traits you stated as self confidence with a pinch of greed & the need for power? Most of the people I have met that felt the world owes them a living don't amount to much.
Achieving success at what? If you are talking business..... I asked my husband who owns a modestly successful business (it's actually a practice). His answer was Passion. Without it, you don't have the rest.
That's gotta be the most focused cat I've ever seen. However, my answer to the original question would be "arrogance and an unwavering sense of entitlement." As a signmaker, I have personally dealt with literally thousands of different kinds of businesses. The successful businesspeople are not the ones with passion or ideas or any of these other virtues, sad to say. They are the ones who are dead-sure that the world DOES owe them a living. They are the narcississtic ones, willing to define and re-define the world from moment to moment, in whatever terms that best massage their own sense of self-importance. This is what is most rewarded in our society. Of course, good connections don't hurt either.
You need all of the above, really.