Billionaires think neither completely positively or negatively, but strategically

• BEs don’t dwell on mistakes. They view problems as learning opportunities. “I don’t remember any mistakes,” the late pharmaceutical billionaire James Sorenson told Forbes, “only the opportunity to overcome problems.”

• BEs think neither completely positively or negatively, but strategically. Instead of thinking, “That’s impossible” or “I can do anything,” they think, “Is that possible?” and “If it is, how could I do it?”

• BEs don’t believe in luck. In a recent Forbes poll of the 400 richest people in the world, none said they had become wealthy entirely by luck. Some said they considered luck to be a minor factor. Most, like Oprah Winfrey, consider luck an outsider’s way of describing someone who works hard and seizes opportunity. “Luck,” Winfrey says, “is preparation meeting a moment of opportunity.”

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