Billionaire Success Secrets From Elon Musk to Larry Page

What separates the billionaires from the millionaires? Hard work, persistence, humility, luck, credit-sharing, integrity, and the ability to accept and shake off failure. But there's more to these five billionaires. SPYSCAPE reveals the secrets of the world’s richest men.

1. Elon Musk (net worth fluctuates, apx $200bn)

SpaceX and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk snatched away the title of the world’s richest man from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in early 2021. What’s his secret? It is not about the money, Musk said. Pursue your passions and don’t be afraid to think big or take risks. ’Enjoy yourself,’ is another of his mantras. (Of course, that was before he bought Twitter.)

Sure Musk wants to colonize Mars and revolutionize the car industry, but he’s just as happy when one of his companies wires up a monkey's brain to play video games: "One of the things we're trying to figure out is whether we can have the monkeys playing mind pong with each other. That would be pretty cool.”

Musk also advocates reading (he read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica as a child) and told Forbes that burning the midnight oil and ‘creating rather than complaining’ are positive habits. It also helps to love your shareholders like your family, create trends rather than follow them, ignore the critics, ask for feedback, and always think about how you can do things better, he adds.