Prescription For Wealth.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Wanna be rich? Do this:

1. Buy a few acres of fertile land for agricultural use, and learn to use it.

2. Learn a trade your community needs: Plumbing, air conditioning repair, roofing, masonry and concrete finishing, carpentry, cabinet making, welding.

3. Learn a high demand profession: Pharmacy is good. Civil engineering is good.

4. And open a business of some kind.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

thanks for the info

 

[Liar]

Wealth is always within reach for those who can afford it.

 

[trysail]

Wanna be rich? Do this:

1. Buy a few acres of fertile land for agricultural use, and learn to use it.

2. Learn a trade your community needs: Plumbing, air conditioning repair, roofing, masonry and concrete finishing, carpentry, cabinet making, welding.

3. Learn a high demand profession: Pharmacy is good. Civil engineering is good.

4. And open a business of some kind.

That's very good advice.

 

[ChinaBandit]

1) 50% of success is just showing up. You would be surprised at how many people fail to turn up.

2) Don't be afraid to ask everyone and anyone for what you want. People really don't like to say no.

3) When someone tells you no let it roll down your back and move on to the next person. However, remember to ask that "someone" again.

 

[mercury14]

Wanna be rich? Do this:

1. Buy a few acres of fertile land for agricultural use, and learn to use it.

2. Learn a trade your community needs: Plumbing, air conditioning repair, roofing, masonry and concrete finishing, carpentry, cabinet making, welding.

3. Learn a high demand profession: Pharmacy is good. Civil engineering is good.

4. And open a business of some kind.

So get a good college or trade school education basically. Stuff we already knew. But small-scale farming on a few acres?

Starting a business is not a good prescription for wealth. It's a good prescription for a certain type of person but there's a reason most small businesses fail and leave their owners with a mountain of debt.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

... because I want to be a cowboy bay-bee...

 

[Liar]

So get a good college or trade school education basically. Stuff we already knew. But small-scale farming on a few acres?

Starting a business is not a good prescription for wealth. It's a good prescription for a certain type of person but there's a reason most small businesses fail and leave their owners with a mountain of debt.

Looks like Jimbo doesn't differentiate between solid finances and wealth.

An education, leading to a good job or a non expansive small business, will get you the former, and is relatively low risk. Starting a successful expansive business will (may) get you the latter, but is high risk.

 

[kbate]

Yep, that old ford van my plumber drives just reeks of his great wealth.

 

[fair_warning]

... because I want to be a cowboy bay-bee...

Cowboy, can your sausage dogs round up cattle?

 

[mercury14]

Looks like Jimbo doesn't differentiate between solid finances and wealth.

An education, leading to a good job or a non expansive small business, will get you the former, and is relatively low risk. Starting a successful expansive business will (may) get you the latter, but is high risk.

There's this myth among conservatives that small business ownership is the gateway to wealth. But the fact is the vast majority of small businesses (the ones that don't fail in the first year like most do) do not provide their owners with a wealthy lifestyle.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Cowboy, can your sausage dogs round up cattle?

They have been practicing on the deer, but the deer refuse to take them seriously...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yep, that old ford van my plumber drives just reeks of his great wealth.

Call him on a holiday...

 

[kbate]

Call him on a holiday...

Waste of a good "plumber reeks" joke. damn this site, damn it.

 

[Liar]

There's this myth among conservatives that small business ownership is the gateway to wealth. But the fact is the vast majority of small businesses (the ones that don't fail in the first year like most do) do not provide their owners with a wealthy lifestyle.

If your business consists of you directly providing the customer with what they need (be the builder, run the shoe store, sell the crack), you will at most have a well-paying job. The payoff will match the time you put in.

If your business consists in you hiring others to provide a lot more customers with what they need (be the building contractor, turn your shoestore brand into a franchice, be the king pin) you can with luck see the payoff per time put in multiply. Hello wealth.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Waste of a good "plumber reeks" joke. damn this site, damn it.

I fail to see the humor in it.

My partner was under a trailer working on the plumbing, we told the drunken bum not to flush the toilet, but he did and my partner got a chest full of crap. Man was he ever pissed...



pissed

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If your business consists of you directly providing the customer with what they need (be the builder, run the shoe store, sell the crack), you will at most have a well-paying job. The payoff will match the time you put in.

If your business consists in you hiring others to provide a lot more customers with what they need (be the building contractor, turn your shoestore brand into a franchice, be the king pin) you can with luck see the payoff per time put in multiply. Hello wealth.

merc doesn't know the first thing about business, the real world, or the right...

 

[kbate]

I fail to see the humor in it.

My partner was under a trailer working on the plumbing, we told the drunken bum not to flush the toilet, but he did and my partner got a chest full of crap. Man was he ever pissed...



pissed

You may live.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You may live.

Dyin' ain't much of a livin'...

 

[trysail]

There's this myth among conservatives that small business ownership is the gateway to wealth. But the fact is the vast majority of small businesses (the ones that don't fail in the first year like most do) do not provide their owners with a wealthy lifestyle.

Yanno what? You have to try. That's your problem; you don't even want to fuckin' try.


Jeeeeeeeezus H. Keeeerist. What the fuck do you want? Do you expect to be given a lifetime supply of food stamps?

 

[kbate]

Dyin' ain't much of a livin'...

I wanted to use one of those quotes the other day, but I couldn't find the carpetbagger on youtube saying, "What can you expect from an unbeliever."

I was going to make that my standard for when I'm arguing with you, but you lucked out and can go on un-annoyed until I get un-lazy and buy the movie to make my own youtube.

 

[Liar]

merc doesn't know the first thing about business, the real world, or the right...

Well, his post was correct for what it was. I was just expanding on it.

 

[kbate]

Yanno what? You have to try. That's your problem; you don't even want to fuckin' try.


Jeeeeeeeezus H. Keeeerist. What the fuck do you want? Do you expect to be given a lifetime supply of food stamps?

No, I think he means that SBA loans should be grants rather than loans.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I wanted to use one of those quotes the other day, but I couldn't find the carpetbagger on youtube saying, "What can you expect from an unbeliever."

I was going to make that my standard for when I'm arguing with you, but you lucked out and can go on un-annoyed until I get un-lazy and buy the movie to make my own youtube.

How's it work on stains?

*spit*

Ah recon so...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Well, his post was correct for what it was. I was just expanding on it.

No it wasn't. It was pure straw man even though he professes to hate straw man argumentation.