Taking Your Cue from the Self-Made If you look at the wealthiest people in America today — Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Dell, Paul Allen — you’ll notice they’re all first generation multi-billionaires. And here’s the wonderful thing: If you do what other successful people do, you’ll eventually get a similar result to what they got, depending on things like timing and market, of course. But let’s say you only do 1/10th as good. Or even 1/100th or 1/1000th. That’s still better than if you did nothing.