No one can be successful 100% on their own. You have to have employees or customers or advisors or teachers to do anything. Even if you make your money in a bubble, someone gave you a direction to look in. Someone taught you the methods (at least the fundamentals) you are using. Someone is on the other end of the transaction.
It’s easy to begin thinking about how we drive our own success. Much of business leadership talks of empowerment and how the individual controls their own destiny. This can be true for a large part but there is no such thing as completely controlled success. Partners and luck always have a role somewhere in the picture.
Don’t forget those who came before. Their roles may have been supporting only. They may have gotten as much out of the relationship as you did. But they are part of the story.