<p>I’ve never encountered a successful person with poor work ethic, so I can’t speak to that. Unsuccessful and poor work ethic? Hundreds. Thousands. But I’ve also had the misfortune to know many people with good work ethic who were not successful – who were in fact chronically unsuccessful. And I think parenting has some part in this. As MiamiDAP points out, parents can help children become aware of “what’s important.”</p>