Morgan Housel

They created something amazing, and that's why they got successful.

Yeah, I think we should be almost the most grateful for people in society who created amazing technology and amazing things at the expense of their own happiness that we all get to benefit from now.

David Senra has profiled 400 of the most successful entrepreneurs.

He's done such a good job doing it.

And he says of the 400 entrepreneurs he's profiled, there's two that

whose lives that he thinks that he would actually want to live.

Who are they?

One is Ed Thorpe, who was a card counter in Vegas and then a hedge fund manager and had just an amazing personal life on the side.

Just amazing family, incredible health.

I think he's still around.

I think Ed Thorpe is 90 years old and genuinely looks...

55.

Incredible life.

But of the other, you know, 399 people that he's profiled, it's that person created something amazing, built an incredible thing, an amazing amount of wealth, technology that we all benefit from.

And we should worship that person or admire that person.

And I would never want to be them.

Yeah, I think the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs, with the exception of maybe hedge fund managers, were not chasing the money.

They were absolutely fascinated with the problem that they were trying to solve, but they weren't doing it just to get rich.

The money came.

It eventually came.