If supposedly hard work/smarts can make you rich, does mean 97% of Americans who aren't millionares lazy/dumb? (myths, stereotypes)
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Bull crap. With this attitude you will never succeed. In 1992 when my marriage failed my net worth was less than $100,000, by 2001 when I retired it had reached the million plateau, and has continued to grow...Guess what the reason was?...First of all it was a positive attitude, then hard work, good decisions, (and a few bad ones) a bit of luck, and not trying to keep up with the the guy down the street. In other words I have been frugal.
Getting rid of a wife who's hobby was shopping didn't hurt either.
If I did that, my small number of millions would be a large number of millions.
I travel to Thailand every year. I buy nice things, quality things. One can do both save money and have a good life.
Its called living within your means.
You can't do all of those things on minimum wage. You might not be able to do any of them.
Behind every great fortune is a great crime. I believe in that. There is not one multi millionaire or billionaire around that does not have some skeleton in their closet. The super rich may launder the family reputation over a few generations but one will always find some bastard back in history who was willing to murder for riches. Indirectly or directly harm others...This is a material world...In order to make your pile of money bigger - another persons has to be made smaller....It is about drive...if you have a drive to be rich and every waking hour is about money- you will be rich...but do you really want to live like that?
You can't do all of those things on minimum wage. You might not be able to do any of them.
You can't do them on say a $41K/year salary either. Unless someone has absolutely no bills to pay, no rent. Unless of course you're running up credit cards in order to do that.
Behind every great fortune is a great crime. I believe in that. There is not one multi millionaire or billionaire around that does not have some skeleton in their closet. The super rich may launder the family reputation over a few generations but one will always find some bastard back in history who was willing to murder for riches. Indirectly or directly harm others...This is a material world...In order to make your pile of money bigger - another persons has to be made smaller....It is about drive...if you have a drive to be rich and every waking hour is about money- you will be rich...but do you really want to live like that?
I saw a show about a guy who built a fraudulent fortune on the basis of pyramiding loans for boats he didn't own. he lived in michigan and discovered that tennessee does not title boats - they do kick out a letter saying this.
He got loans 'secured' by nonexistent boats from tennessee and bought a marina and it was an impressive scam for as long as it lasted.
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