Seriously you’re such a whiner. The richest man I’ve ever met in person ($2 billion+ net worth) was a plumber in the 1970s working literally with shit. Now he owns nearly every commercial building in the county I live in. I wanted to work for him and learn how he did it.
Everyone at the top of the Forbes’ billionaires list is self made.
Jeez.
“Steroids did all the work”
“Women hold all the power”
“You didn’t build that”
What a whiner.
From humble beginnings.
Tell us more about your billionaire buddy.
What makes you think this describes you well?
Thank you
I don’t know about “realist,” but you are not a competent reader, because that was exactly what he said.
YEAH, how dare he tell you what to do, when he’s not even LEGIT successful and you practically ARE!
Lol “buddy”. Just a guy I tried to get a job (and thus learn) from. But since you asked:
He’s nearing 74yo, Italian decent, tan, wide man who still has the blue collar forearms and sausage fingers/scarred hands of someone who has worked, he works seven days a week 15+ hours a day and begrudged giving his employees sundays off or vacation time, he smokes multiple cartons of cigarettes inside the office weekly, still on his first wife, has a croquet mallet in his office he threatens people with, has a nose for deals and business and is very savvy.
That’s about all I remember. What was the value in that line of questioning again?
Why would he begrudge giving Sundays off and vacation time?
My granddad was no billionaire but a “middle class millionaire”. He worked similar hours as the Italian cyborg. If I called him on a federal holiday and told him I was off, he thought I had lost my job, and say, “You’re not working anymore?” or, “Did you lose your job?”
An inside joke between my brother and I for days off is, “You don’t work?”
He’s just wired that way. He wants to work, all the time. He doesn’t understand that everyone else isn’t him.
I’ve been told he doesn’t like his son because his son tried to keep up with his dad for 20 years and then had to bow out and “only” run the multi million dollar construction side of the business. He didn’t want the whole empire and the 100 hour work weeks 52 weeks a year.
That’s not the life I’d want either. But I don’t begrudge the man his material success since that’s exactly what he wants. He’s a SOB to deal with, but he gives more to charity yearly than everyone reading this earns per decade.
Sounds like the same amount honestly; only bulkier.
So basically you’re saying he cheats. I mean, that’s not working hard or smart, that’s just adding in extra time. If I’d started working 15/7 in high school, I’m sure I’d be a billionaire, too. Also, nicotine is like speed, so there’s the doping angle, too.
A billionaire was once quoted in a WSJ article I read years ago, “Have you ever met a billionaire who plays by the rules?”
Many billionaires have exploitative and sordid practices. It takes more than a lot of hours and “hard work”.
Also true of humanity.
Certainly not all of it.
In The Millionaire Next Door, the average millionaire* in America closely matches the profile of @T3hPwnisher’s “buddy.” Dull-average profession (trades), drives used cars, works like a demon.
*As I recall, “millionaire” meant net worth $3M+, not sure when the book was written, but several or many years ago.
Definitely not: just the vast majority.
To keep the story straight, that was @Basement_Gainz
The following is going to sound funny, but it’s quite real.
You need to get to a certain level first before you can engage in these exploitative and sordid practices.
For simplicity’s sake, let’s say you are worth a couple of million or even 10s of millions. Most of the aforementioned practices that have significant benefits to someone worth billions will not be available to you, nor would you be able to utilize them to your benefit even if you were given access to them. Or you will just end up screwing yourself over.
For someone worth less than a couple of million, forget about it. Go build up, and increase the value of your business first before thinking about them.
Yuuup, it’s a lot like roids.
Concur. Those with the ability to employ these practices employ them. Those that don’t employ them simply lack the ability to do so. The notion that it is purely sainthood that restricts many from these advantages is wishful thinking.
People will exercise tyranny in whatever fashion they have access to. Evidence? Go to a grocery store parking lot and observe how many carts are not returned. Everyone is their own pocket dictator.
True indeed.