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    My First Passion Was Getting Rich!

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    Dialogue between James Altucher and Mark Cuban via James Altucher Podcast. Altucher: "But what I noticed going back to all of your ventures is that for you, your primal passions came first. You wanted to watch basketball, so you started AudioNet." Mark Cuban: No. My first...
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    New Old Member here

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    Hello... I have been a member for a while but have just started visiting the site and contributing. Hence the title.. Location Central California. I've been a contributing member to other forums in the past but had gotten burned out on the forum scene. Lots of good folks here it seems so I...
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    18 y/o starting a local cleaning company.

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    As D11FYY points out going out with the subcontractor on their initial visit to a customer would help with your quality control processes. It could also be a good selling point to your customers. "Management has strict quality control standards" "Initial work is inspected by management" That...
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    New, starting accounting job next month with perks, advice?

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    Look at it as an opportunity to get paid to learn.
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    We Lost a Great Entrepreneur, RIP Felix Dennis

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    Interesting guy. Brilliant entrepreneur. Great showman. RIP. "In 2006, Mr. Dennis wrote a book, “How to Get Rich,” in which he argued that “having a great idea is overrated.” Acknowledging that this seemed counterintuitive, he went on to say, “You need great execution.”"
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    Being Homeless vs Start making money in a business

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    I guess he "Burned The Boats" too soon!
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    How do people become Billionaires in Real estate?

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    http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/06/18/meet-nick-schorsch-the-billionaire-king-of-high-yield-reits/ This guy did it through leverage, scale, and OPM. "Schorsch has long been driven to succeed. At high school in Philadelphia, his senior project was revamping a division of his...
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    How bad is California really?

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    If you want to save some money on rent... Living in your office is always an option.. Take a cue from this gent.. http://www.laweekly.com/publicspectacle/2013/10/17/i-live-in-my-office "You see, I live in my office. For more than 250 days, I have called the place where I work home, taking up...
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    Making 10's Of Millions In Finance/Investments/Speculation

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    "The next greatest danger to a young business man in this community I believe to be that of speculation. When I was a telegraph operator here we had no Exchanges in the City, but the men or firms who speculated upon the Eastern Exchanges were necessarily known to the operators. They could be...
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    Jay Leno - car collection

    "I always tell new people in show business, I say, 'Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed,'" he explained. "'And when you get screwed, you will have this pile of money off to the side already.'" -Jay Leno
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    Diary of Opening A New Business

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    This reminds me of something Jeff Bezos once said, "I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' And that is a very interesting question; it's a very common one. I almost never get the question: 'What's not going to change in the next 10 years?' And I...
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    Just gave in my 2 weeks notice.

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    "You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son."
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