This quote is partially apt to your idea: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himsel

This quote is partially apt to your idea: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -GB Shaw I don't fully agree with the quotation from Shaw, but there's some truth to it. And I suspect a common quality of the billionaire class is ruthless unreasonableness -- and considerable luck.