Billionaire Gary Michelson is on the Positive Phil Podcast
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SAN DIEGO - Californer -- Michelson became a billionaire in 2005 after reaching a $1.35 billion settlement with medical manufacturing giant Medtronic, which involved an extended court fight over the surgeon's patents. Michelson invested the payout into several philanthropic ventures and Karlin Asset Management Inc., his investment company, which manages more than $1.5 billion in capital. Karlin invests in real estate, global equities, and natural resources.

Dr. Gary K. Michelson, 62, is a billionaire inventor of surgical devices and a retired orthopedic surgeon who has devoted an estimated $300 million of his fortune to an assortment of causes. Topping the list: animal welfare, medical research, online textbooks and tropical rain forests.

How did you get here? What failures, setbacks or challenges have been most instrumental to your success?

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GARY: To succeed the way I did, doing what I did, required a very high level of focused single mindedness to the point of being willing to give up a lot of other things that most people would not be willing to give up. The cost of my success was very high. I did not have a family. I did not have a wife and children. I did not go out and party, I did not even have a television set, because I could not give up the time from my work.

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