25 Winning Traits of the Super Successful People

ByAntony C.
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What do millionaires look like? What are the common winning traits of highly successful people?

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett weren’t born with a silver spoon but each has their unique traits that predict success. 

These famous self-made Millionaires and Billionaires have the qualities required for success in life to become super wealthy. A level of wealth where it seems almost superhuman!

In fact, you can learn these characteristics that lead to success and create massive wealth.

So…what are the traits of the super-wealthy? What is the key to success in life?

Let’s Explore!

25 traits of success

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25 Traits of Success By 25 Most Successful Multi-millionaires

1. Focus

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. Elon founded and co-founded many companies such as SpaceX, Tesla, Inc. Neuralink, The Boring Company, OpenAI and PayPal.

Focus on his goals and Elon has achieved much success that overtakes many others in the field. Many have described him as the real-life Tony Stark of the Iron Man Series by Marvels Inc.

Elon is one of The World’s Most Powerful people and has a net worth of over $55 billion he is also one of the richest people in the world according to Forbes. 

2. Grateful

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was the queen of daytime television. With a whopping $3 billion net worth and even with her superhuman success, she is humble and grateful to the people around her.

Her personality has brought her many fans and imparts her beautiful values with words such as being thankful for what you have.

A gratitude of contentment brings forward some famous quotes such as:

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

3. Courageous

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of the eCommerce Giant, Amazon.com which is a household name that almost every American knows. His success is made by his willingness to fail and pick himself up.

A brave and courageous entrepreneur who build one of the world’s most innovative companies and recently his personal net worth is the highest in the world, higher than Bill Gates who is currently the 2nd richest according to Forbes Richest 100. Jeff Bezos is currently the first person in the world that have to build the first Trillion Dollar Company.

Jeff Bezos once said and we quote:

“I cannot overstate how important incremental innovation is. But for the big innovation, you have to be willing to fail.”

4. Intuitive

Larry Page

Google is the most amazing company in the world and the largest search engine that most people in the World use to search for anything on the web. If you love Google, Larry Page is the man you have to thank.

Not knowing what direction he should go, with pure intuition Larry Page created Google, the world’s biggest search engine. Just with his gut feeling, he knows he wants to create something that will benefit others, something that will provide value.

Google is currently ranking as the top search engine which made Larry Page a billionaire who has a net worth of over $28 billion, according to Forbes Richest 100.

5. Creative

Jan Koum

Ever wonder who is the creator of WhatsApp? Who has changed the history of SMS? Jan Koum is the creator of the famous application software that millions of users used every day. 

Jan Koum is a self-made billionaire with a net worth of over $7 billion. Like some of the other billionaires ahead of him, he dropped out of college to start his entrepreneurship dreams by creating the now-famous WhatsApp which was later sold to Facebook.

Though many Billionaires and multimillionaires drop out of school it does not mean dropping out of school makes you rich. These entrepreneurs drop out of school with very special traits of thoughts and are backed with a massive amount of actions. 

A Dream without actions will always be a Dream.

6. Dedication

Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and one of the highest-paid motivational speakers and personal finance educators in the world. His book Money: Master the Game is a true life changer.

His dedication to helping people discover their true purpose and leverage their unique gifts to achieve massive success has changed many lives.

His story of rags to riches and the spirit of giving has inspired many others to success and fame together with a humble attitude to serve.

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7. Tenacious

Sheldon Adelson

Who heard of Las Vegas? Who is the king of the casino? Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation is one of the biggest corporations is the world.

Sheldon Adelson was listed by Forbes as one of the 100 Richest people in the United States with a fortune of over $30 billion.

What is less well known is that Sheldon Adelson started his business career at the young age of 12, a time when most people are playing soccer or chasing after the newest celebrity. 

And by the age of 30s, he had built and lost his fortune twice. Despite being disheartened and giving up, he pursue his goals and opened Sands Macao in China, and Sands in Singapore, and his personal wealth multiplied many folds into one of the most influential people in the world.

8. Innovative

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin together Larry Page co-founded the world’s most valuable company; Google.

Starting their company in 1995 with a vision of building the best search technology in the world, they innovated on the technology and by the late 1990s, Google is marketed as one of the best search engines.

By continuously innovating and improving the user experience Google now dominated the Search Engine Market.

Some other wells know apps and websites such as YouTube and Play Store are also part of Google’s Success.

Amazingly the founders of Google weren’t after the money when they co-founded Google, he simply wants the world to have the best search technology. And that lead to Google’s success.

Sergey Brin is currently having a net worth of $29 billion as reported by Forbes.

9. Competitive

Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn is one of the legendary billionaire investors you don’t want to mess with.

Early in his life, he exhibited his competitive nature and always believe to take fate into his own hands. Success is created by people who create their own future.

Defying all odds and living in the less privileged areas Carl Icahn change the precepts of only the rich can achieve great things, it is those who take fate into their own hands that can achieve great things.

Carl Icahn Ignoring the naysayers and beating all odds helped him to create a superhuman net worth of over $25 billion according to Forbes.

10. Charming

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is one of the most charismatic people which makes him one of the richest people in the world with a net worth of over $2 billion.

Well-known in the Shark Tank series Mark Cuban is an investor and an entrepreneur who knows the importance of winning hearts and minds. If you want to build an empire, you need to first get the right people to work with you.

A quote by Cuban during one of his interview make a lasting impression:

“People hate dealing with people who are jerks, it’s always easier to be nice than to be a jerk. Don’t be a jerk.”

11. Benevolent

Charlie Munger

Charlie Thomas Munger is an investor, a businessman and a philanthropist have a net worth of over $1 Billion dollar. Although he is not as well known as Warren Buffet the legend of the investing world.

Charlie Munger is the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, an irreplaceable partner of Warren Buffet.

Warren Buffet once said, there are 2 people that he owns his success:

  1. Mentor and professor Benjamin Graham
  2. Business partner and best friend Charlie Munger

Part of Charlie Munger’s success is his core values and the way that he lives his life.

The core ideology that has served him throughout life is 

“safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want.”

And to achieve that he reads a lot every day.

Tao of Charlie Munger is a treasured book with the wisdom of a successful 90 years old legendary investor. The book I always kept with me, with 100’s of Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth advice is my favorite bedtime read.

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12. Strategic

The Koch Brothers

Charles and David Koch who are more commonly known as the Koch Brothers have a combined net worth of over $89 billion.

They funded non-profit organizations such as Fred and Mary Koch Foundation, the Charles Koch Foundation, the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Koch Cultural Trust.

The Koch organizations collectively have a stated goal of “advancing liberty and freedom” through the support of various causes that “further social progress and sustainable prosperity.”

Some either love them or hate them, but the Koch family has made many strategic moves that have helped them to build America’s 2nd largest company.

The Foundation of their success is their strategy in hiring.

Charles Koch once said during an interview:

“A lot of companies want to hire the smartest person, the most talented person. But, the worst thing we can do, as we found, is hire a very talented person with poor values. If we are going to hire somebody with poor values, we want somebody who’s not very smart, because he or she will do less damage.”

13. Curiosity

George Soros

George Soros is an investor and philanthropist. Having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations he is currently having a net worth of $8 billion.

With curiosity as his trait, he has discovered many ways and explored different philosophies in his business as well as his investment career.

For the man who is also known as the “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England”.

He is always exploring any flaws in his theories and always learning and exploring other ideas. This kind of curiosity is what made him successful and put him in the spot of Forbes Top 100.

14. Determination

Phil Knight

Phil Knight is the co-founder of the world-famous sports brand; Nike.

With an initial investment of just $1,000, selling his shoe to local runners from the back of a station wagon, he brings the famous brand to life. Step-by-step he grew his company NIKE into a worldwide leader of sports equipment today

Starting with a niche product and pure determination, he has grown his net worth to over $34 billion according to Forbes Top 100.

15. Confident

Michael Dell

Michael Dell found his riches during the early 1990’s computer and later the dreadful dot-com boom.

Building his business from his university dorm room, he started selling the Dell computer and eventually dropped out of college to start the Dell Computer Corporation.

His confidence to make things work made him one of the most successful CEO and in 1992, he is one of the youngest CEO ever to be in a Fortune 500 company.

During the interviews, he said:

“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”

16. Persistent

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of the social media giant Facebook. Created in his dorm room during his colleague years designed for a few university schools where people can share and make friends. He has built it into the now social media giant where billions of users are using it every day.

Zuckerberg has built a superior product and his success was his relentless and early development of Facebook.

Facebook continues to grow and take up the market shares of the social media space. Mark Zuckerberg is now having a net worth of over $55 billion as reported by Forbes’s Top 100 Richest.

Read Also: 53 Powerful Entrepreneurs Quotes For Aspiring Startups

17. Attention to detail

Steve Anthony Ballmer

Steve Ballmer is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft after Bill Gates stepped down from the CEO position.

During his time at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer was described as “a master of precision questioning to analyze and get to the root issues of any problem whether it is business or technology related.”

His exceptional traits of attention to detail together with critical thinking and problem-solving abilities have guided Microsoft in many critical decisions and build one of the greatest software companies in the world.

Steven Anthony Ballmer is currently having a personal wealth of about $42 billion according to Forbes’s Top 100 Richest List.

18. Inquisitive

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison is a businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is a co-founder and executive chairman, and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation. One of the largest software companies in the world.

His inquisitive nature allows him to explore many business opportunities and has made him a net worth of over $63 billion according to Forbes’s Top 100 Richest.

During one of the interviews he said:

“The most important aspect of my personality, as far as determining my success goes, has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.”

19. Brave

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, author, and philanthropist. Being fired from his full-time job at the age of 39 in 1982, a time when financial information are very limited to the ‘common folks.

Bloomberg started his own company with the idea of making financial information available to the common folks on their electronic devices. 4 decades ago, electronic devices such as PC are not common and many will not be able to effort it, but he did what he believe and he succeeded.

He is now having of a net worth of over $55 billion according to Forbes’s Top 100 Richest. His company Bloomberg is currently one of the largest financial information sites in the world.

His philosophy can be summarized in this one sentence during his interview:

“Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.”

20. Passionate

Donald Trump

Donald John Trump is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Love him or hate him, he is one of the most successful billionaires who have become the president of the United States. With a net worth of over $3 billion, he is one of the richest people in the world.

Billionaires like Donald Trump find success with their passion to drive forward. 

“Without passion, you don’t have energy; without energy, you have nothing, nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

21. Patient

Warren Buffet

Warren Buffet, “The Oracle of Omaha”, business magnate, investor, speaker, and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

Warren Buffet is the legend of the investing world that thought millions how to invest and the mindset of how to truly become rich yet humble. In 2009, he gave 83% of his total net worth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is equivalent to over $30 billion.

A hero and a fatherly figure to many he is considered one of the most successful investors in the world.

With his investing philosophy taught by Benjamin Graham and devised with Charlie Munger his business partner and vice president of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has a total net worth of over $82 billion according to Forbes’s Top 100 Richest.

Buffet once said during his interview on his take on investing:

“It’s pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it’s not easy to get rich quick.”

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22. Visionary

Charlie Ergen

Charlie Ergen is the co-founder and Chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar Communications Corporation. The pioneer in the current common satellite broadcasting.

Aiming for the future of media broadcasting he and his wife started selling satellite dishes at the back of a truck.

Charlie Ergen is currently reported to have a net worth of over $13 billion according to Forbes Top 100.

23. Fearless

Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist. Starting his first venture at the age of 16 with the Virgin Records, the founder of the Virgin Group is a man who is fearless in the face of uncertainty. 

According to Forbes Richard Branson have a net worth of over $5 billion.

Richard Branson believes you have to go out of your comfort zone to achieve greatness.

 “You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

24. Adventurous

Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and the author of the Best Seller book Zero To One. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund.

With his dare to innovate, he together with Elon Musk and a few others, created PayPal, the worldwide solution to secure payment.

Peter Thiel is now having a net worth of over $2.5 billion according to Forbes. and Top 10 of the Forbes Midas List.

25. Humble

Bill Gates

Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft is a business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian.

Bill Gates together with his wife Melinda are known for their devotion to making use of their fortune in giving and improving the lives of others, especially those living in the poorest country.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, they have donated tens of billions of dollars, yet Gates feels that contributions by many others are more meaningful than his.

During one of his interviews with Reddit:

“I’m not giving up food, or vacation, or a trip to the movies, I essentially sacrifice nothing that I want, and there are people who are out in the field and they are giving more.”

Humble and having a heart for giving are some of the few qualities that make him so successful.

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Traits To Success You Need To Know

25 Success Traits List

  1. Grateful
  2. Courageous
  3. Intuitive
  4. Creative
  5. Dedication
  6. Tenacious
  7. Innovative
  8. Competitive
  9. Charming
  10. Benevolent
  11. Strategic
  12. Curious
  13. Determined
  14. Confident
  15. Persistent
  16. Attention To Details
  17. Inquisitive
  18. Bravery
  19. Passionate
  20. Patient
  21. Visionary
  22. Fearless
  23. Adventures
  24. Focus
  25. Humble

Just reading about the traits of success will not make you successful, you will have to follow through and act. Remember your road to success is in your hands.

Here are some resources that will help in guiding you to your success.

What guides me in my journey are some of the many books I read over the past years. There are also many words of wisdom said by those who have achieved what we want to achieve and learning from them is the shortcut to our goals.

Here are some of the Best Quotes You may want to put at your bedside and remind yourself.

Taking your First Step is always hardest, But it is the Most Important Step to Greatness

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Antony C., Founder of IncomeBuddies.com.
Antony C.
Founder & Financial Writer at Income Buddies | Website | Posts by Author

Antony C. is a dividend investor with over 15+ years of investing experience. He’s also the book author of “Start Small, Dream Big“, certified PMP® holder and founder of IncomeBuddies.com (IB). At IB, he share his personal journey and expertise on growing passive income through dividend investing and building online business. Antony has been featured in global news outlet including Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq and Non Fiction Author Association (NFAA).