"The cream always rises to the top."
The riches part of the cream will always rise to the top. In any recessions, in any type of job, you put the right person as a janitor of a business and in ten year they'll own the whole business.
No matter where you start It's the quality of the work that you can do. It's not how hard you work. Scientists have found that hard work is only 20% of the equation.