nah that is a load of rubbish tbh. sometimes you play at a final table or watch one or whatever, and a player there is so bad that you wonder how on earth he got past the 1st level never mind the ft. getting his money in bad at every opportunity and winning- i would say this kind of player very occassionally gets lucky and gets a decent score, as it is hard not to do well when you are running like god.
however, for the most part you have to put yourself in the best position to win each and every hand you possibly can, and over the long run, you will reach many more final tables and win more tourny's than the bad players. it depends what type of tourny you are playing in- as has been said the 3x turbo is madness, the first 90 mins people just go crazy. in this period i would recommend that you don't play like a donk and shove with 6 3o just because half of the table is all in, i usually wait for good hands and get my money in good with say A Qo and are usually dominating the weak aces and Queens that people shove relentlessly in the rebuy period. if you attain a big stack then after the add on, instead of having to shove your first hand you can min raise to steal the blinds. it's all about stealing blinds and attempting to get your money in good in these types of tourny's.
as for reg speed mtt's i believe that there is not that much luck involved in them. especially if you build a big stack, the other day i had quite a deep stack- maybe 60 or 70 bb's or so and was going quite deep. i raised A Ko from early position and a guy 3 bets me. at this point i could have 4 bet and he would have probably shoved- adding unwanted variance to my chances of doing well as it would have probably been Jacks or Queens or maybe even Kings or Aces. so because i felt bad players would spew a lot more chips post flop i decided to call and also because i was deep stacked. i missed the flop and check folded.
so yeah, for the reg speed ones it really depends how you want to play them, i find that only going all in pre if you are short or have ultra premium hand- A A or K K mostly perhaps Q Q. is the best way to play. otherwise it is good to steal a lot, keep building your stack and let the weak players spew chips to you by having a solid post flop game.
good luck.