Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.