Plan B: Skip College

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

So true. The whole American dream of building a business from the ground up and rising from the roots of near-poverty to being a successful business owner are largely bullshit. In fact, your chances of making it are probably about the same as winning the lotto.

It takes money to make money.

Then they suck.

My GF's grandpa started his own company and was an immigrant from Greece with no money (and didn't speak any English). Now he owns a company that is worth more than $100million. I know an ambulance owner who also started with nothing and he is worth well over 100mil. I believe the founders of home depot started with nothing or very little. A firefighter friend of mine started a pressure washing business and by himself brings in $250k a year. Same for an asshole landscaper I worked for who made $500k and his dad beat him for fun (his mom died giving birth)

A lot of succesful businesses I know of started with nothing. The difference is unlike you, me, and billions of others, they had the initiative to work hard and never give up and it is why they are wealthy now.

Yes, I know you have the Paris Hiltons of the world but over all people who are wealthy are wealthy because they stived for it.