Morgan Housel

And for a lot of them, not all of them, but for a lot of them, if you get to know them, they spend the vast majority of their day doing things that they don't want to do.

And that, to me, that still might be appealing to some people.

Or if you're not at that, you might say, look, I understand you say that, but let me experience it for myself.

Let me try to do that.

That's always the appeal.

So I get that.

But of the very wealthy people I've met, some of them have truly amazing lives.

And I wouldn't say jealous, but I look at them and be like, I want to be you.

I think there's a greater number, though, that if you get to know them, you're like, wow, that's not what I thought it would be.

You can't.

You're never going to meet a billionaire, except on the very few people who like accidentally got rich.

You're never going to meet a self-made billionaire who has a kind of personality who could say, that's enough.

Let me put it all in muni bonds and go home.

It's not, it's not there.

The reason that they are successful is because they have the kind of personality where they cannot 24 hours a day.

All they can think about is their business.

And,

And even if I would say I don't want that for myself, of course, I want to be financially successful and I enjoy the work that I do.

I'm so grateful that those people exist.

Like the vast majority of the great technology and great medicine that we all enjoy in the world came from people who were maniacally obsessed about their job, even if it came at the expense of their health, their marriage, their relationship with their kids.