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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
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Your link is just the Forbes 400 vs Brian's point of millionaires as a whole? It also states 35% started off from "lower or middle-class background" which is pretty darn good success rate for self-made billionaires.
I have also read other studies (Fidelity, Stanley's Millionaire Next Door etc.) that do purport majority of millionaires (not billionaires) are self made. But I would agree majority of them came from stable households that had other inherent advantages/opportunities that many lower income families do not (besides pure money)