Successful people work hard – is that true?

In our society an opinion exists that successful people always work hard. First, let’s decide what success is. To my mind, it consists of the following components: prosperous career providing you high salary, respect in the society, sound health.
• Sure, if you work hard your efforts will be rewarded with a successful career, high salary, etc
• Hard-working people always win the respect of the majority which is the sign of success.
• Mostly, people who work much don’t have time enough for different luxuries damaging which may damage your health. And isn’t good health a sigh of success?

On the other side, we can find counter pleas to all these statements.
• Some people achieve prosperous career making no efforts at all. For example, sons and daughters of millionaires. Have a look at Paris Hilton.
• Many reach and succeeding people are hated by the majority of those who they worked for. An excellent example for this statement is Bill Gates. The richest man in the world is despised by most people who deal with computers professionally.
• As for the last point, we all know many people who worked hard and undermined their health. No examples needed.
So, really successful are those who are satisfied with what they have now, but have plans for future improvement of their lives.