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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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