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> I wasn’t expecting a “well, actually, screw happiness and satisfaction” response but here we are.

Starting a successful business, offering an exceptional service or product to customers, seeing your employees fulfilled and happy -- those tend to tick a lot of boxes for people in terms of happiness, meaning, and sanctification.

Most successful people know it's that "offering an exceptional service or product" bit that makes you wealthy. Starting a business to be rich as an ends in itself rarely works out.




It would be interesting to see a survey or studies on the happiness levels of founders and/or business owners.




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