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What I don't understand is why people bother working toward the second billion. I mean, you can really only spend so much money. Give me 5 million and I'd quit my job, find some meaningful p/t volunteer work, and be happy for the rest of my life.
I started out as a chemical engineering major in college. My best friend stole my idea and my girlfriend. I then went on to teaching high school chemistry. After a few years of teaching, I contracted cancer. I said " Oh hell," it's time to make some real money and invested in a car wash. Over the years life got interesting and profitable.
This thread just goes to show you any american with some gumption and a knackering of common sense can become a billionaire. When I worked at Dairy Queen as a teenager I was known as the kid who could make the town's best Mr. Misty Freeze. I must have sold 80 of them every summer. Every so often the local Ford dealer would tip me a nickel. His favorite flavor was lemon lime. I put all those nickels into an interest bearing savings account. Then later on I married my wife who is the sister of the guy who owns Facebook.
This thread just goes to show you any american with some gumption and a knackering of common sense can become a billionaire. When I worked at Dairy Queen as a teenager I was known as the kid who could make the town's best Mr. Misty Freeze. I must have sold 80 of them every summer. Every so often the local Ford dealer would tip me a nickel. His favorite flavor was lemon lime. I put all those nickels into an interest bearing savings account. Then later on I married my wife who is the sister of the guy who owns Facebook.
I just checked my brokerage account and have $1 Billion in savings.
How old were you when you saved your first $1 Billion in total assets and how did you do it?
I set up a lemonade stand on my front lawn when I was 8 and then Carl Icahn and Warren Buffet got into a bidding war over my business. After I sold my company, I just saved by living below my means, and slow and steady investing, mostly in stocks.
I never thought I'd see so many replies to an obviously silly thread!
I never thought I'd see so many replies to an obviously silly thread!
Not silly, I just saved invested my first billion two years ago. I made it by convincing people to buy Gold as a cushion against armageddon. Told them their money was going to be worthless after you know who won again. It worked and I got folks to give me a Billion of their worthless money in exchange for my doomsday avoiding Gold. Dang and they fell for it. P.T would have been proud.
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