The reason advice from successful entrepreneurs is generally considered worthless is because for every successful person there are thousands or millions of unsu

The reason advice from successful entrepreneurs is generally considered worthless is because for every successful person there are thousands or millions of unsuccessful people who did exactly the same thing, worked just as hard and weren't successful. There is probably an equation here where; the number of simultaneous unsuccessful identical attempts is proportional to the magnitude of the success multiplied by the fame or notoriety of the successful. There is no magic recipe for success, and anyone trying to sell such a thing is trying to sell snake-oil, or trying to feel special. This depends of course on how you define success, as it applies to the above pseudo equation.