You can certainly do more than that, but there are no shortcuts, with experience you’ll learn to spot opportunities and take advantage. For example just a few days ago someone was recruiting for an industrial corp in a hisec pocket surrounded by lowsec and supplying the Factional Warfare active in that area. You don’t have to mine, you can source your materials using buy orders and spotting bargains on the market, i.e. take advantage of other players apathy.
My endpoint is selling various high value goods, I gather particular materials, buy/sell those materials, manufacture items, possibly move them to the right market. In all cases I’m adding value and margin at every stage.
It’s taken me a significant amount of time to build my supply chain, anything worth doing in Eve takes effort and time IMO.
EDIT: Sudfel Enterprises - Low-Sec Industrial Corp Recruiting High-Sec Miners