The ones I know all took many risks, with mixed success. One guy, who mentored me a lot when I was younger, always liked to tell me about how a lot of his earl

The ones I know all took many risks, with mixed success. One guy, who mentored me a lot when I was younger, always liked to tell me about how a lot of his early risks didn't pay off at all and so when he was in his early 40s and had 4 kids, he owned nothing and had to go back to working a crappy job for a few years before taking the next risk. Eventually many of his risks payed off. He did very well for himself, and has one of the happiest families I've ever known.