You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: "How-To-Be-A-Millionaire" Books Are Bullshit
I disagree. Books like Rich Dad Poor Dad can radically change the way people view money. Not only does it contain useful information but it acts as a source of inspiration and get's people to question their previous attitudes. Sure, reading it won't single handedly make you a millionaire but for most people it will help to some extent.
I agree. Rich Dad Poor Dad was of big inspiration to me, and changed the way I thought about my financial situation. Read it in my late twenties some 15 years ago, and I'm very grateful that I did.
I love the richest man in babillon. It changed my way of life and positioned me to path of financial growth.
Yeh, great book!
There almost no usefull information - read quotes from the book and don't touch. It's motivational book.
Some Millionaires are bullshit too. They count everything that they have as 1 000 000, even their loans.
Did he write the book before he made money?
no.
your argument is invalid. Any book on this spirit can act as an inspiration if the author is already successful. Also, lets get real for a sec. They re shuffle the same material that has been written already a million times. Is just every generation finds a new guy to aspire to. Previous generation had Tony Robbins guys. this generations has your guy. next generation..another guy with the same ol' stuff.
I believe success is a matter of luck and ability. It is luck of your ability is valuable in the perfect time. For example. Would Bill Gates be rich if he was born 10 years earlier or later than he did? If he developed his OS earlier it would have been useless as the PC was not invented. Later and someone else would have developed a better OS. It is only by trying again and again,adapting your ideas will you be successful. But how successful depends on circumstances beyond your control
definitely not.
IBM would have beaten him to the race.
exactly.
IBM paid Bill Gates to create DOS for them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
I think Apple would have have been more successful longer. How computer history would have changed if Apple computers beat the Wintel? Steve Jobs would not have been fired from Apple and he would have been CEO of Apple longer before he died.
This is what I'm saying about success and circumstances
many companies where doing advances around that point in time. I was reading a book somewhere that some systems were even at the level of windows but failed to be popularized due to poor understanding of the public. same as with blockchain today
Yes, rjona1. Success does depend on circumstances beyond your control. But what is behind having a desire to be a millioaire in the first place. In reality, the more you have the more freedom you lose. I mean, you have to work at holding onto that million. Right? Is it greed that makes ones want to become a millionaire. Will he or she be more loved. Willl there be more friends? So, how much do we need to live a fulfilled life and have financial freedom? Is it true, that the richer you are the more you have to worry about? I think so. You memtioned Bill Gates. I suppose he has to depend on security cameras and officers to protect him day and night. What a miserable way to live. But yes, I believe Bill was at the right place and at the right time and he had opportunity and all the attributes to plug away at developing microsoft and contribute to the world. I praise him for having the self-discipline to make the sacrafices that he made. And I praise his parents for teaching him the value of an education and making him study first before play. Im just guessing he was raised by his natural parents. I don't know. But I do know that Ex-President Obama had a Mother who made him get up 3 hours before he went to school and practice on his English grammar and speaking. Everyday! How many Mothers could do that? Not many, because Mothers have to get their rest and punch a time clock. Thanks for your input.
'