Success, the very word conjures up images of happy people, so sure and confident of themselves. Climbing the stairs of success, revelling in the glances of envy showered by peers, glances of admiration thrown by subordinates and sundry other staff.
It is a very enabling or rather a very sapping word, if the success happens to be that of a person who doesn't deserve it. That is why I think that people have conjured up the idea of "luck". Or, else how come can u explain their (bottom-lickers) success.
I cringe when such people try to claim the credit for the work that they haven't done, or rather can never do even in their imagination.