Morgan Housel

doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave

Ordinary folks with no financial education can be wealthy if they have a handful of behavioral skills that have nothing to do with formal measures of intelligence.

Read saved what little he could and invested it in blue chip stocks. Then he waited, for decades on end, as tiny savings compounded into more than $8 million.
That’s it. From janitor to philanthropist.