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1 thing billionaires have in common; a slowlane job

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Tony I

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The other day I studied some of the richest billionaires in the world.

As I read biography after biography, something started to stick out.

A lot of them found their Fastlane opportunity through a SLOWLANE job.

example: Wayne Huizenga - owner of Miami dolphins, started 3 Fortune 500 companies. worth 2.5 billion dollars.

how he started:

took a job as a garbage man/truck driver. Then founded the largest trash company in the US, Waste Management.

If he didn't take the slowlane job, he would have never saw the Fastlane opportunity.


another example; A well known billionaire in my area started out selling copy machines door to door. he realized an inefficiency in the way the company ran.

Started his own copy company, sold it for $80 million dollars years later.

He credits his success to learning the ins and outs of the business, and then improving upon the inefficiencies.

Too many posts (newbies) want to just start a business right away. Instead of thinking of a job as part of PROCESS, They think a slowlane job is "below them."

If your broke and you don't have a business running, you should be looking to obtain a slowlane job and find a problem you can solve within that industry.

Success leaves clues. Even MJ found his fastlane opportunity this way.

Stop thinking your too good for a job.
 
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The other day I studied some of the richest billionaires in the world.

As I read biography after biography, something started to stick out.

A lot of them found their Fastlane opportunity through a SLOWLANE job.

example: Wayne Huizenga - owner of Miami dolphins, started 3 Fortune 500 companies. worth 2.5 billion dollars.

how he started:

took a job as a garbage man/truck driver. Then founded the largest trash company in the US, Waste Management.

If he didn't take the slowlane job, he would have never saw the Fastlane opportunity.


another example; A well known billionaire in my area started out selling copy machines door to door. he realized an inefficiency in the way the company ran.

Started his own copy company, sold it for $80 million dollars years later.

He credits his success to learning the ins and outs of the business, and then improving upon the inefficiencies.

Too many posts (newbies) want to just start a business right away. Instead of thinking of a job as part of PROCESS, They think a slowlane job is "below them."

If your broke and you don't have a business running, you should be looking to obtain a slowlane job and find a problem you can solve within that industry.

Success leaves clues. Even MJ found his fastlane opportunity this way.

Stop thinking your too good for a job.


The question remains. Do I need to finish high school? What about College? What degree do I need?
 

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Some very good points here, my man, but I don't think a slowlane job is essential to becoming a billionaire. There are many guys who don't fit the bill. For example:

Elon Musk: worked a few jobs to support himself when he first came to Canada, but was inspired to start his own internet company from hearing about another guy who did that, and sold it for millions. Ultimately, he became a billionaire because of the companies he made from investments from his PayPal buyout.

Mark Zuckerberg: Been a computer whiz ever since he was a kid. Got an idea from some fellow Harvard students.

Richard Branson: Started a magazine when he left high school. Later expanding into a record business.

J.D. Rockefeller: He worked as a bookkeeper when he was 18. I can't remember why he decided to get into the oil business, but it wasn't related to his job.

I think a lot of guys find inspiration from their job, and when their entrepreneurial spirit kicks in, they see how much further they can take the industry they are part of. Billionaires are known for revolutionizing their industry, and taking it to a whole new level. I think perhaps the time spent working a slowlane job teaches them about the processes of that industry, but ultimately what makes someone a billionaire is a larger than life vision, and the determination to carry it out.
 

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The other day I studied some of the richest billionaires in the world.

As I read biography after biography, something started to stick out.

A lot of them found their Fastlane opportunity through a SLOWLANE job.

example: Wayne Huizenga - owner of Miami dolphins, started 3 Fortune 500 companies. worth 2.5 billion dollars.

how he started:

took a job as a garbage man/truck driver. Then founded the largest trash company in the US, Waste Management.

If he didn't take the slowlane job, he would have never saw the Fastlane opportunity.


another example; A well known billionaire in my area started out selling copy machines door to door. he realized an inefficiency in the way the company ran.

Started his own copy company, sold it for $80 million dollars years later.

He credits his success to learning the ins and outs of the business, and then improving upon the inefficiencies.

Too many posts (newbies) want to just start a business right away. Instead of thinking of a job as part of PROCESS, They think a slowlane job is "below them."

If your broke and you don't have a business running, you should be looking to obtain a slowlane job and find a problem you can solve within that industry.

Success leaves clues. Even MJ found his fastlane opportunity this way.

Stop thinking your too good for a job.
Man, you have super powers if it only took a day lol!
but seriously thanks for your post and I cant agree more. Actually I think it s vital for especially younger people to have jobs in the slowlane and preferably jobs they hate! as this leads to thoughts like "man, there has to be a better way to do this" or "if I owned this business I would do it so much different"/ You get the picture. And so the entrepreneurial seed is planted.
Thanks again I like this post :)
 
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What better way is there to start a business than to know something about it!
 

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I think we've all had jobs at some point and we all get in front of different pain points at one point or another. Probably not important to "get a job" in order to find a painpoint or need in any field. The important part is being able to recognize that a given solved pain can be traded for money. And what about the other billion people out there with ordinary jobs? I don't think a job is the best path there, experiences from it can be salvaged thought, as it is with most things in life.
 

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In my business, I always like to see newbies jumping in with all their money. They are the best people to sell to and to buy from. Even if they can see the pain points, they cannot always execute a plan with enough efficiency.
 
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If your broke and you don't have a business running, you should be looking to obtain a slowlane job and find a problem you can solve within that industry.

That's a key sentence. Your value on the market is what you can give to that market, then you're rewarded if you hit it right. The thing is to be present in the life, to see the opportunities. Opportunities can be see when person is knowing himself (can take more risk, know what he's good at, his talents) and place where he's moving - when there is nobody else "in the neighbourhood" who can know himself better and know the exact industry better in case of ability to exploit oppportunities (because they can have more knowledge - but that's not the case!)- then you have your "bang!". What I've also noticed is that, there were an examples where very helpful to future billionaires was to have friends or partners in the same industry - what I mean by that, is that you can exchange your opinions with that mindset similar people - and what I mean by that - is the way you can see where you are himself.
 

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Great thread.

*Grammar Nazi incoming*

YOU'RE* (I'm sorry I just had to do it)
 

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The question remains. Do I need to finish high school? What about College? What degree do I need?

What will you spend all the money on? Should you set up an LLC? Should I move to another city first? Should I move to another country and pay less tax? These are the real questions.
 
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I think this is related to the commandment of need. Needs that everybody can see on the surface, like a cure for cancer or a car that doesn't need gas, are easy to spot, but incredibly hard to solve (or someone would have done it), and have lots of people working on it all over the world.

In a niche industry, an INSIDERS sees the problems that an outsider can't, so they can experience very great rewards by meeting a need that may be both easier to solve (fewer people have tried, maybe none) and have significantly less people competing for it.
 

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when you dont have any clue about how a industry operate, you can come up with a business model totally different from the business models integrated in that industry.

Industries had been revolutionized because some people decide to enter in unknow territory and change completely the way business is done.
 
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Stop thinking your too good for a job.

What is your job?
What is your exit plan?
How far are you from that?

Do you know that there are billions of people with a slowlane job who barely make a living, let along being billionaires?

It is good to study success & failure but don't trick yourself into thinking about finding the "magic mathematical formula".

As @Ninjakid pointed out there are examples from both sides but that doesn't tell anything.

Success or failure depends on your attitude, daily habits and taking chances (or not)!
 
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I see both sides of things, what I am presently working on is only because of having a job and seeing a void.

However:
Do you need a job first in order to become successful? No
A degree? Not that either.
Experience? Not necessarily.

What you need is a way to solve a problem or an opportunity to create demand...it just depends on how you come about it.

Just as you cited examples to support your point, others can site others to argue theirs.
 

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I see both sides of things, what I am presently working on is only because of having a job and seeing a void.

However:
Do you need a job first in order to become successful? No
A degree? Not that either.
Experience? Not necessarily.

What you need is a way to solve a problem or an opportunity to create demand...it just depends on how you come about it.

Just as you cited examples to support your point, others can site others to argue theirs.
This
Couldn't have said it any better myself.
 
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