The way to success

Everyone wants to be successful and everyone wants to find a way to success. But, what's the way to success? What should we have when
we are on the way to success? A right means patient, confidence,
possessiveness, and so on; I believe there are necessarily many persons(that is technically correct, but in America it's more common to use "people")
will tell me that. However, I don't think so. Of course, those are indispensable
and play important roles in the process to success.

In my view, what I consider the most important to success is to make/making full
preparations. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the
first four hours sharpening the axe." It's a famous remark by Abraham Lincoln.
That made me reminded/reminds me of a well-known Chinese saying, "sharpening your knife won't waste your time for cutting your faggot." I am firmly supportive 

of this view that good preparations lead to success. Without full preparations,
something like a right means patient...if we thought those that are important are just nothing; we would be probably end up in failure.

Thus, no matter western or eastern, they are so similarly telling us one thing... that
making full preparations is a most important to be successful.