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Minte, I will be thinking about you Monday night when my Bears beat your Packers :thumbsup
Go Bears :) |
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I was raised in an area of mostly very poor people, my family included. I didn't really notice since that was just the norm until I got to college. The rich kids really blew my mind. I didn't realize some of these kids got boob jobs and nose jobs as part of their high school graduation gifts. Weird shit to me.
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Born Rich is meaningless. Someone born to a family that has a few million tucked away has a big advantage over poor people but that kind of advantage usually gets squandered away within a couple generations or less. The market self-corrects for that sort of thing.
Born WEALTHY on the other hand is something entirely different. I'd bet you not a single person on GFY was born wealthy and other than one or two, not a single person on GFY has any chance of having their children born wealthy. When someone is born with a trustfund of a few hundred million... that doesn't ever go away. Decendents of railroad tycoons, banking vultures and oil titans, even several generations later are all playing by a very different set of rules. Stop thinking people like Minte and people like the OP are so different. The gap between them may be large but it is tiny when compared to the gap between either of them and NFL Team owners. Millionaires and the poor are both being abused by Billionaires and yet they still think they so different from each other. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. |
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At the same time, my older brother, inherited millions of dollars when he was seventeen. He spent the next twenty-five years or so living well, never worked a day in his life... Until the money ran out. Suddenly he was forty-five and had never ever worked a day in his life. |
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What, should he be abandoned by the parents and only then you would agree that he worked? |
I do not understand what the problem is with Minte taking over and running a business he didn't start himself? I'd be proud to take over a family business and see it flourishing, wouldn't you? He's not being anything other than genuine when posting pics of his business headquarters, he's proud of it and you would be the same if it were you. Unlike 99.9% of people here he can actually back what he says up, and never makes a show of it. :2 cents:
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Imagine if you were the most hardworking man who would start working at your fathers company and eventually take it over you would still be called only the one who "worked". Even if you were the most hard working person in the entire company you would still be called the one who "worked". Just because your father had the company. Conflicting logic. :2 cents: |
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If my family owned a small convenience store that I eventually took over then took from being 1 small store to a statewide chain of stores that is still a very impressive accomplishment. |
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It's an entirely different way of life. You think in terms of having a million and wanting three million. Having three million and wanting 17 million. When you start with 300 million in tax free investments you don't have to think about getting to 500 million. When you have 2 billion, 10 billion doesn't buy you anything 2 billion couldn't. With generational wealth it's points not dollars. :2 cents: |
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The Bears are due..I think it's been 3 1/2years since they beat the Pack? :) |
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[QUOTE=Rochard;19854210]Do you or do you not run the business that your father started?
QUOTE] I run a business that my father and I started together. He retired in the mid 80's and passed away in the late 90's. I have answered you this before in detail. You won't forget again, right? |
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Our resin supplier and their CFO was here this afternoon. I was busy. And as far as being oddly quiet. If you have friends that have done well, ask them this question sometime. What is harder. making a fortune or keeping it? |
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Wow that is awesome. You are a good man. How much is each meal? |
congrats on the accolades and noms, minte!
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Far-L and his brother are from a rich family, every article written about Homegrown mentions some famous elite private school they went to.
And weirdly, somebody told me a long time ago that XXXJay comes from a very wealthy family. I'm from a middle to upper middle - depends on what the definition of upper middle class is. |
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So you didn't take over your daddy's business, the two of you "built it together". That's ten time worse than your father giving it to you. Your father, a man twice as old as you, with twice as much business experience, and the ability to raise one hundred times more capital... Helped you. If you did this on your own at age twenty-three you would have failed. Without your father you would have had nothing at all. If my daddy came to me twenty or thirty years ago and said "Let's a build a business" and I got to use his line of credit (that is a lot more than a broke twenty-five year old has access to) I too would have a business would be building a fountain in front of my huge office building too. (You know I love giving you a hard time. Email me already so we can talk off of GFY. I don't have any contact information for you.) |
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I know what AD is referring to because I went to school with the super elite, as did my bro. You know everyone thought the Beatles came from money and the Stones from the other side of the tracks when the exact opposite was true. Assumptions... well... we all know how assumptions work... And you seem to be making a lot of those these days. Don't harm yourself with assumptions unless you want to Markharm yourself with presumptions. |
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Making money is ALWAYS hard work. Keeping it is even harder. The only exceptions are lotteries and inheritance on a massive scale. Don't confuse someone who earned money with someone who won the lottery (genetic or powerball variety). Doing that is no better than confusing someone who is poor with someone who is lazy. |
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i didn't have any help aside from my parents letting me use their computer. i grew up wearing clothes from the salvation army and living a house that was falling apart (literally) with no heat in the second floor. maybe i'm just a born failure but had i taken it as seriously as i should of and make a few different decisions, who knows where i might be today but instead i'm still working at it 7 days a week trying and hoping one day to get somewhere other than just average. |
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I respect Minte, as I too, am nothing but a board persona, from way back and have enjoyed watching his continued growth....
Fantastic news for the nomination, truly deserved from what I read! |
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The people who DID figure it out weren't doing 'nothing' and obviously 'anyone' couldn't do it. Twenty years from now people will look back at the thing that seems easy in hindsight, the thing you aren't doing now for whatever reason. Figure out what that thing is, figure out how to make money at it and in the future they will tell you how easy you had it back in the day. Fail to figure it out and your answer to the same question about why you didn't will be the same as it is now. At home 3D printing? A new app to monetize 'freeloader traffic', A whole new product nobody knew they needed until now? A product that was tried and failed but now has the timing to be a huge success? What is that 'easy' thing people will talk about in hindsight ten or twenty years from now.... Figure it out yourself or plan to be man enough to give credit to those who did when the time comes. ;) |
By the way... For anyone who missed it... Minte is building a clean room, presumably to get into printing biological materials. In the next few decades printing human organs and replacement parts like ears will be a bigger industry than all car parts and plastic doodads you can think of... combined. Twenty years from now some of you will say 'he had it so easy back when he started in Biologicals, there wasn't much competition in that industry yet and he had this huge factory with so much spare capacity. All he did was invest a few million dollars into an entirely new somewhat experimental offshoot of his existing business"
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You're very combative for a gentle hippy type. |
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He has explained about his business in detail...from the beginning up to this year. Why I do not know...it certainly is not something I would have done. Every new loser quizzes him and asks the same shit all over again and again...you are no different...sport. |
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i remember back to high school, the new camaro z-28 came out, several of the just turned 16 year old kids i hung out with were given 1 by their parents, 1 brother&sister got identical ones but different colors.
i was pretty upset about that since my parents only got me the rs camaro. . |
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In the 10+ years I was in this business, I went to shows, bought sites, galleries, content, hosting, ad spots etc... Along with that I promoted many different programs. Most of those oldtimers are gone now that remember me, but every single one of them had my info as I was either paying them or they were paying me. |
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I was not born wealthy, however most of my friends outside this business are. You should not discount peoples achievements like minte he tooka small business and made it huge. JHands on work.
Most people would screw it up. So out of the say 25 guys I hang out with and play basketball with at an elite private school. Only 2 did something on their own. One sold a business for a couple million before he was 30. Then took over the family business, which was just a game for his mother (they own rubber plantations in Asia). Anyway he took over their business in Canada and turned it sround into a thriving publishing company. The other guy started a cool online security company and sold recently. So that is 2/25 Not good odds for super rich with connections. So give pepple the respect they deserve. It takes a lot more than just money to make a big company. From my phone. ..excuse the errors |
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