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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2012, 03:58:11 PM »
Quote from: lars1701c on September 03, 2012, 02:48:45 PM
Sorry I am pretty far to the right but I am not going to take work ethic advice from a person that inherited billions

From the brief amount I've read about this woman, she expanded what her father left her and has made his company into a bigger one.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #26 on: September 03, 2012, 05:18:21 PM »
Quote from: Vagabond on September 03, 2012, 03:54:19 PM
It's entirely possible for a person to inheirit, or win (say a lottery), a considerable sum of money and blow all of it.  So they got lucky at birth, what of it?  If she didn't have a good head for her business or a willingness to listen to those that did, she would have less now than what she started with.

Ok give me billions and let me take a whack at investing it. Not saying she shouldn't keep her money or telling her what to do with it but she could be a bit more humble.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2012, 05:20:08 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on September 03, 2012, 03:58:11 PM
From the brief amount I've read about this woman, she expanded what her father left her and has made his company into a bigger one.

Well as you know thats easier to do when you have money to begin with then starting from scratch. Hey good for her she has all that cash but I am just a little ticked she isn't a bit more humble.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2012, 05:30:39 PM »
Quote from: lars1701c on September 03, 2012, 05:20:08 PM
Well as you know thats easier to do when you have money to begin with then starting from scratch. Hey good for her she has all that cash but I am just a little ticked she isn't a bit more humble.

You want her to wire a few million dollars to your bank account?
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #29 on: September 03, 2012, 05:37:48 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on September 02, 2012, 10:00:57 PM
You can make excuses or make money, but not both.

Awesome.

Damn insightful, there; I never thought of that, but that's exactly right.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #30 on: September 03, 2012, 05:52:38 PM »
Quote from: lars1701c on September 03, 2012, 05:20:08 PM
Well as you know thats easier to do when you have money to begin with then starting from scratch. Hey good for her she has all that cash but I am just a little ticked she isn't a bit more humble.

The truth hurts.  It doesn't matter if someone who wasn't the intended target of said truth is offended (collateral damage, after all).
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #31 on: September 03, 2012, 08:15:00 PM »
Quote from: lars1701c on September 03, 2012, 05:18:21 PM
Ok give me billions and let me take a whack at investing it. Not saying she shouldn't keep her money or telling her what to do with it but she could be a bit more humble.

You and I both know what we would do.  It doesn't mean either of us would be right, just what might be done. 

Remember the guy that won, at the time, the biggest lottery ever?  Remember how he commented that he was going to buy a headstone for a deceased friend of his that didn't have one, but he didn't know what he was going to do with all that money, while his (adult) kids stood behind him smiling?  A few years later, he declared bankruptcy.  His grandson and his daughter had both OD'd on narcotics bought with money he had given them.  Who knows where it all went?  He was lucky, except really not so much. 
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #32 on: September 03, 2012, 09:40:26 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on September 03, 2012, 05:37:48 PM
Awesome.

Damn insightful, there; I never thought of that, but that's exactly right.
Thank you very much kind sir. I can't claim it as an original thought though. Somewhere in one book or another I read it. But it is also said, when the apprentice is ready the master will appear. Lincoln also said something very similar, "Each man is my superior in some way, that I may learn from him". I would add my own corollary, each man will vacillate from the role of learner to teacher throughout their lifetime, as the situation dictates, and hopefully with maturity and experience will fulfill the mentor role progressively more, but always remaining open for learning opportunities.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #33 on: September 04, 2012, 02:05:28 PM »
Quote from: lars1701c on September 03, 2012, 05:18:21 PM
Ok give me billions and let me take a whack at investing it. Not saying she shouldn't keep her money or telling her what to do with it but she could be a bit more humble.

Are you kidding me?  A bit more "humble"?  Humble about what?  She's 110% correct and I would take worth ethic advice from someone who has grown an inheritance as opposed to someone who has blown one any day of the week.
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Re: World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder
« Reply #34 on: September 04, 2012, 02:19:34 PM »
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21. Growing up poor was so much fun....

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Sometimes we didn't have money for the electricity bill oh my goodness camping out in your living room in the dark its fun
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