This is the kind of faulty reasoning that might be caused by looking at anecdotes (e.g. the exceptional story of Richard Branson) and assuming that a single ane

This is the kind of faulty reasoning that might be caused by looking at anecdotes (e.g. the exceptional story of Richard Branson) and assuming that a single anecdote tells you something about the world, when actually you are ignoring the other 1,000,000 over-extended, Richard Branson-wannabees who went broke and never had books written about them.