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His investing success, he told the newspaper, was “all a matter of chance. It certainly wasn’t because I worked 5,000 times as hard as the average person, or was 5,000 times smarter than the average person.”

Huh, turns out he's about 5,0000 times smarter than the average billionaire that never realizes this.




What makes you think they don't realize it?


Because the average mill/billionaire isn't very humble, and tends to emphasize that their earnings came through hard work and merit.


"tends to emphasize that their earnings came through hard work and merit."

Examples?




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