Counterexample: https://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-success.html …. In general, I wonder how much of what's often described as entrepreneurial "optimism" is actually "ability to understand expected value."
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Doesn’t his success rate suggest that he’s wrong? (PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX — possible we’re living in the 0.1^3 world... but seems unlikely.)
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Optimists achieve things.
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Dear optimist, pessimist and realist, while you were busy arguing about glass of water, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist
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I like this much better than Mark’s version https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/why-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-thinks-the-optimists-are-successful.html …
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There is a fundamental difference between people who insist they are doomed to their fate and those that think they have control
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I’ve begun to describe myself as a “Grumpy Optimist” Noticing everything broken, but convinced it can be fixed. Those fixes become my products and services
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.” F Scott Fitzgerald
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May be it seems that way because most those who make money are optimists, but you never hear about the optimists who lose money. Lottery players are optimists and you only hear about the winners.
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Optimism is necessary but not sufficient
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