The common point that unites Musk, Gates, Bezos and Buffett and that will make you see them differently

Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett. Surely the tuple of businessmen with the greatest depth and importance today and also recurring names (which even alternate at number 1) such as the richest people in the world.

They all have entrepreneurship stories, leadership and business management that are studied in schools and universities, and serve as inspiration to thousands of people. However, there are also looks on them and the general trend of admiring the most successful people in the world that invite you to change the prism to put your feet on the ground sometimes.

That is the case of the analyst of Inc Geoffrey James, who advocates putting so much enthusiasm about the figure of ‘self-made men’ that sometimes accompanies these great names.

“Much has been written about the secrets to success of billionaires. They work hard, put in long hours, take risks, get up before dawn, and so on. However good that advice is, there are a lot of people who work hard and for a long time but barely survive.“, writes.

And it is that, for James, without detracting from what they have achieved, a couple of the root of the success of these millionaires with a privileged vision of their industries or the markets is also in the fact that they were born into families, at least , accommodated.

Have today’s great entrepreneurs really made themselves?

Elon Musk’s father owned a profitable emerald mine and he was a wealthy real estate developer in South Africa. Jeff Bezos’ parents gave him $ 300,000 to start your business. Bill Gates’ parents were wealthy and had strong connections to IBM in the early days of today’s tech industry. Buffett’s father was a highly successful investor and he was a four-time congressman. All positions of privilege that counteract the sometimes prevailing message that they have made themselves completely.

“Obviously these guys played their cards well, but they had a very strong hand to begin with and were lucky when they pulled new cards, probably because the deck they were playing with was already in their favor“, the analyst uses as an analogy.

“The vanity of the self-made billionaire myth wouldn’t matter, if it weren’t for fostering the futile belief that anyone can get rich if they work enough. In fact, no one works harder than a poor person who has access to few resources. “, ends.

This was his first work

That does not prevent that despite their well-off situation, many of them have worked in jobs in which they surely had no need to do so given their family situation.

Elon Musk worked on a farm and as a boiler cleaner, Bezos selling hamburgers, and Buffet selling newspapers.