Morgan Housel
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I know, I'm sure you know,
many rich entrepreneurs who are the most insufferable, arrogant people that you don't want to spend five minutes with.
That's what a perfect guy is.
fix your cars, you help the community.
Like people love that, that, that persona.
People love that.
Like, you know, from, um,
James Clear is, you know, if you want to talk about book sales, I mean, he's in a completely different league than I am for nonfiction.
Of the five or whatever people who've sold more nonfiction books, he's at the top.
And he's one of the nicest, humblest people you can ever meet.
One of the most caring people you can ever meet.
James and I have only met in person maybe three times.
So I would be lying if I said he's one of my closest friends.
But whenever I have a question about books, and this goes back to before I wrote Psychology and Money, and he was a big dog and I was a nobody.
And I would send him a text and he would write me back a novel.
Like he would spend half a day
trying to help me figure out the title of my next book kind of thing.
So nice, so humble and so unbelievably successful.
Atomic Habits has sold over 25 million copies and it's still going stronger than ever kind of thing.
And I think he thinks about, he had the saying one time that I loved.