To: Knitebane
Then after mommy cuts a deal for you to sell your product to IBM and daddy writes up the contract for you, yeah, then you get the big bucks.You are correct about Bill Gates. While I don't begrudge him his fortune, he was born very well connected. It's not as if he was the illegitimate son of a 3rd shift convenience store clerk and a Somali wet nurse.
38 posted on
06/02/2008 2:39:43 PM PDT by
E. Cartman
(Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
To: E. Cartman
I am sure there are exceptions but most of the extremely wealthy people started off wealthy or moderately so. It was their Father or Grandfather who did the hard work. Making the first 10 million is much more difficult than making the last billion.
A good example is Howard Hughes.
44 posted on
06/02/2008 2:48:14 PM PDT by
yarddog
To: E. Cartman
“It’s not as if he was the illegitimate son of a 3rd shift convenience store clerk and a Somali wet nurse.”
Is that you Rowan Atkinson?
88 posted on
06/02/2008 4:10:01 PM PDT by
TalBlack
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