The Repeated Formula Behind Every Great Fortune
The Secret That Separates the Truly Rich From Those Who Never Make It
The stories of the richest men in history often sound mythical when retold. But the closer you look, the more practical they become. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Gates, Buffett. Different eras, same patterns.
They weren’t born with secret blueprints. They built them through habits, structures, and ways of seeing the world that multiplied over time.
One of the first patterns is timing. Not luck. Timing. Extraordinary periods of change create extraordinary fortunes. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan were born within four years of each other. Jobs and Gates in the same year. They all rode waves of technological and cultural upheaval.
They didn’t invent the waves. They positioned themselves to harness them.
The key lesson is not to guess the future. It’s to remain liquid, flexible, structurally prepared for the moment when chaos breaks the system wide open. That’s when fortunes are forged.
The second pattern is freedom early on. Rockefeller sold candy to kids. Buffett r…
