I think you've properly identified many of the traits that can lead to success. I think the danger here is seeing a list like yours and assuming that's all tha

I think you've properly identified many of the traits that can lead to success. I think the danger here is seeing a list like yours and assuming that's all that's going on or that somehow it's a simple recipe that you follow and after 30min at 375F in the oven: you're a billionaire! Truth is that I think your list isn't fundamental; these are secondary, perhaps emergent, traits which have deeper origin. When you break down the world into fundamentals: you still need to do that correctly, if you misunderstand what you see, you'll not take correct action. If you take the time, but really can't see the forest for the trees, you'll fail. Your strong beliefs can help you defy less insightful naysayers, but also prevent you from seeing the actual errors of your ways, too. In short, I'm going to bet that if you look at a broad swath across people with varying wealth levels, you'll find many people of whom you can attribute many of those traits... only that the traits served each individual more or less kindly. I think at each step in your list, the key distinguishing feature is that each "billionare" in question was able to correctly assess the context of the point in light of the goal of advancing their self-interest. Being able to correctly reason about the facts, opportunities, and risks in front of you and envision the correct action and execute on that action are much more important that circumstantial facts that you can see in an after-the-fact analysis. I may sound like I'm discounting luck in all of this (right place, right time, etc), and I don't mean to... but I think there are those that want to over-play the role of luck in these things for a variety of motives. Luck is real and does help some and hinder others... but if you're lucky/unlucky you still have to be smart enough to react to the hand you're dealt in order to maximize/minimize the outcome.