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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by hogFeast on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:58PM (#21131777)
Why do you need to categorise this? It seems so utterly futile: "Oh, just do these ten things, and you will become a billionaire...all you need to know is the secret knowledge that only billionaires know".

Do something you enjoy. Stop trying to study the success of other people and reverse engineer it. Not for anything else: you can be sure that they spent more time just doing the thing they wanted to do rather than study other people for tips.

I do get this feeling. I went through it. But then I realised that none of the stuff that matters to me is going to change. If you want to be able to jump into a big pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck...then maybe.

Also, if you are really interested in business the absolute last thing you should be doing is building lists of personal characteristics. Read what public companies are doing, read financial reports, etc. That is actual business (I don't think the OP is interested in business, he just wants success...which is something else...go into politics maybe?).

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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by perl4ever on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:05PM (#21131835)
"Oh, just do these ten things, and you will become a billionaire"

I think you're completely misconstruing what you responded to. That list is neither about becoming a billionaire nor about what to do to get there. It's describing talents or tendencies that make people build things worth millions, not billions.

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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by imgabe on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:31PM (#21132030)
I don't think it's misconstrued at all. You build things worth millions or billions by doing the actual work to build them. Not by aping the personality traits of people who built other things.
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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by perl4ever on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:54PM (#21132157)
If your point is that hardly anyone can read a list of personality traits and then go out and adopt them, I certainly agree. But I don't think that was being promoted as plausible.
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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by tensor on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:50PM (#21132133)
If you succeed at building a business, you won't be building anything outside of the first few years. Other people will, and you will need the traits and skills the OP described to guide them and make your company succeed.
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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by anon9001 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:01PM (#21132542)
Personally, I'd like to take any path that ends with a Scrooge McDuck pool.
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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by GhettoMaestro on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:07PM (#21132573)
How many throats are you willing to slit? :-)

(Note: Just kidding - I am not really suggesting said behavior.)

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Re:If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire by anon9001 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:13PM (#21132610)
Good thought, but I don't think surgeons are making pool-of-gold-coins money ;)

I'd definitely watch the movie if someone made a dark film about Scrooge McDuck's younger years as a crime boss...

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