There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you’re successful.

The statement reframes “luck” as a label people apply after the fact to outcomes they didn’t witness being built. Calacanis is asserting a causal chain: disciplined work plus intense study over time produces competence, better judgment, and more opportunities—conditions that mimic luck. The quote also implies a moral stance: success is not a mysterious gift but something earned through deliberate practice and endurance. At the same time, it functions as motivational rhetoric, downplaying randomness and structural advantages to stress agency: you can increase your odds by becoming unusually prepared and persistent in a chosen field.