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Seattle knows them as well, both personally and professionally. We are not even close to being rich. I don't even fancy myself wealthy, just a working slob like everybody else around me.
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Tell me what your definitions are for your groups and I'll tell you where I am.
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The bottom line is there's really only one way to get "rich," and that's becoming a business leader, usually a highly successful business owner, a generator of vast wealth through inovation. Billing clients $400 or even $1,000 an hour won't make you rich. It will give you a high standard of living and seeming riches in the eyes of your milk man and gardner, but you won't be rich until you have done it for years and years, at least not by my definition of rich. And if you're doing it "for the money," you won't be happy. Personally, I learned a long time ago that keeping score based on money is not too satisfying no matter who you are. You need to do what you do because you regard it as a calling to serve, and you live and love the labor, and this is especially true in the professions. It's just like no one should become a writer to get rich. I'm speaking what sounds like platitudes I know, but truer words were never spoken.
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The other well-off people I know are more like in FMCoug's league. Not rich by any stretch, but do very well and have lots of toys. |
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10-31-2007, 06:23 PM | #37 | |
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Point is that there are always going to be people with more, and you had better not let it bother you, or be motivated by it. |
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Money for money's sake only goes so far.
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Guys like me are making the money in Sicily. I am il Padrino.
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