Posted on 09/13/2014 4:36:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
I'm sorry, that's so far from the truth, it pains me to read what you said.
Working hard, striving for excellence in what you do not only leads many to success, but those who don't reap big financially (and there are some) reap in spades the developed character of honesty, loyalty, and the capacity to deal with life in a whole different dimension. Developed character is its own reward.
Long ago I heard this quote from George Gobel (successful entertainer at the end of his life): "It took me thirty years to become an overnight success." You might want to think about that for a while........
When I was younger I changed jobs every now and then just for variety and also exposure to different skill sets in the medical career I was in and also for increasing pay but money wasn’t always the sole factor.
My one regret is not investing more wisely at a younger age or having the knowledge much earlier. Although currently I’m financially sound but my overall wealth could have been so much greater today from better habits started earlier in the area of investing. Perhaps that’s true for most of us.
>>69% earned their wealth mostly by trading time and effort for money, or by “working.”
It is worth noting they also attained that wealth by living below their means enough to accumulate those investible assets.
It does seem that people who are career successful are successful early in life. I’m not sure if this is a credit to nature or if as one ages their energies are diverted elsewhere (e.g. being a successful parent).
Then again, perhaps we only read about the young successful and their IPOs (not that success needs to result in a need for investors or selling your business to shareholders, but it is a visible metric) as it is considered more newsworthy.
That's an envious statement, which is leftist loser thinking. Envy is a side-effect of excessive vanity. Many higher on the economic food chain are surprisingly humble people, humble enough to do the work and suffer the failures to get there. They have little to do with their excess wealth but wisely allocate their capital to create jobs and opportunity for others. Their wealth may or may not bring them more happiness. If you want to experience more moments of hedonistic euphoria than a rich person, become heroin addict.
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.”
Thanks, I make my money in the stock market by expecting stocks to move in a way that has no relationship whatsoever to how hard the people there are working, what their product is, or how much they sell it for.
Hawkins forgot to mention black politicians. Some of them (Colin Powell, B. O’Bummer) easily affirmative-actioned their way to the top.
That statement came across as something I would expect to hear from someone who saw the movie but never read any of Tolkien's books.
And what should be the most outrageous insult of all, your community organizer/president will tell you that,
"You didn't build that!!! Someone else did!!!"
TOTALLY agree! My husband has three children from his ex liberal, socialist works-for-child-protective-services-in-NY shrew.
The oldest just barely graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA and is a pot fiend (which Mommy denies). Mommykins has helicopter, coddled and medicated all three into oblivion.
She fills them with pipe dreams—she’s told the oldest he’s going to be the next X-Factor or American Idol discovery. The kid has NO musical talent and sounds like a cat with his tail on fire. She sends the two boys off to Rock Star Camp every year without fail ($500 a week per person).
Now we’ve found out through facebook that she’s shipped off the oldest to live with his alternative lifestyle Uncle and his “spouse” who are known to have pot/booze parties with minors. No plans for the future—that is until he turns 20—she’ll cram him into community college to collect the extra child support that can continue well past the age of 21 here in biomom-centric NY. (search engine: Age 29 Law)
She’s made the daughter, almost 16, a quasi lesbian, militant feminist who manages to play tonsil hockey with a 19 year old GUY. All with mommykins approval.
And because this is NYS where men have ZERO rights to their own children, absolutely NOTHING can be done about it withoug incurring six figures of legal fees.
Talk about the failed self esteem movement!
Plus, their children were raised to be similarly industrious, shrewd citizens. Their children turned out better than the children of rich parents who gave their kids everything and didn't expect much out of them. Many of the rich, lazy kids who were simply given a lot of money without having to work for it soon spent their inheritance and didn't know how to make money.
Yes, but working hard for something gives you a much better chance for success than sitting back and waiting for things to come to you.
No, not everybody who wants to get rich and works hard for it becomes wealthy. But I'll bet on that person to have a better life than people who sit on their backsides giving as little effort as possible blaming others for their situation.
“Although currently I’m financially sound but my overall wealth could have been so much greater today from better habits started earlier in the area of investing. Perhaps that’s true for most of us.”
Well, I HAD planned carefully, did everything right from a young age and STILL got snookered by my ex (I refuse to give him the title of ‘husband’) who systematically drained our retirement savings (hundreds of thousands of dollars) and left town with another woman.
So, starting over at 50 wasn’t easy, but I’m in better shape than most.
Still sucks, but Karma is going to give him a big, wet, sloppy KISS on the lips one day, and I hope I’m around to witness it! :)
I think one thing that happens is that the ‘hopefulness’ of youth becomes replaced by the anxiety that one is running out of time. Running out of time to enjoy and be happy in life (and therefore less willing to put everything into your job). Running out of time to make those changes in direction and take the risky moves that are part of great success. Etc. Add to this that you feel (for good reason) that you are looked upon differently by others as you age, one has less of that ‘nothing is going to stop me’ optimism that drives you. I think it's important to bring carry-over early successes into later years in life. That provides a bedrock that keeps the ‘hopefulness’ alive - and keeps you ambitious. That doesn't mean you can't start late and do great things. It's just harder.
Many years ago Burt Reynolds posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine. George Gobel said, “I posed nude once...and that’s when people found out why they call me “Lonesome George”. It was one of the funniest things I have ever heard. America lost a real treasure when Lonesome George passed on at the early age of 71. Hard to believe someone so lovable came out of Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqiS_U9erTE
“Thanks, I make my money in the stock market by expecting stocks to move in a way that has no relationship whatsoever to how hard the people there are working, what their product is, or how much they sell it for.”
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I would not be surprised at all if you are doing quite well at that. I have seen some absolutely worthless stocks go up like rockets, usually they come down just as fast but it is all in the timing.
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