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Free registration at the forum removes this block.MJ DeMarco somebody told me a very intresting story i am baffled i want your opinion about this is this true?
Kommentator56 - Youtube told me
Well. MJ DeMarco actually was lucky and all motvational speakers warn for other motivational speakers. Why was MJ DeMarco succesful? I say he was lucky because:
He was born at the right time.
He was interested in cars.
He wanted to eat an ice cream at the right time
He bought an ice cream at the right time
He met the right person at the right time (the guy with the Lamborghini)
He later on chose the right job and that not because he knew that job would help him put because out of a necessity, which is where he got the idea for Limos.com.
He made the website at the right time when the internet was a new and undiscovered market and investors bumped a lot of cash in it.
He than sold it in 2000 shortly before the dotcom bubble burst.And that also allowed him to buy it back from the investors who lost alot of money on the deal. After the market recovered he sold it again shortly before the financial crisis happened.
And those are only a couple of events in which he got lucky. If one of these events, and many others, which were almost impossible to predict, wouldn´t have happened he would propably have gone bust or he would still be sitting there reading autobiographies. For example he sold the company exactly at the right time because after the dotcom bubble burst the company went bust (he lost 700000$ because his stock options that he demanded from limo.com because he only took 500k$ cash and 700k$ in stock options, became worthless so it is obvious that he didn´t know that the dotcom bubble would burst). If he would have waited another month he propably would be homeless right now. In total he made a maximum of 5 Million $ which is not all that much considering that he lives for a few decades without any income, which is why he wrote that book. The more I look into it not only do I see how lucky he was but also that he is a fraud.
This is called the "Unknowable Claim fallacy". There is absolutely no way to substantiate MJ would go bust or sit around reading autobiographies if all those things hadn't played out the way they did. You can't know what would have happened.If one of these events, and many others, which were almost impossible to predict, wouldn´t have happened he would propably have gone bust or he would still be sitting there reading autobiographies.
All successful individuals are followed by a gaggle of envious haters. Its a fact of life and and a sign that the individual has finally 'arrived'.
^^^^THIS
Anyway, for those that believe success has more to do with luck than anything else I'd recommend Brian Tracy's The Luck Factor.
Description of The Luck Factor:
To some people, success is based on luck, a random whim of fate, a chance roll of the dice. But nothing could be further from the truth. Success, to a great extent, can be influenced by luck, but this is not to say that luck is an accident. Luck is predictable. With hard work, it can be controlled. By concentrating on several 'luck factors' - key areas of your life that influence your future success-you can take the reigns of chance and feel yourself racing forward at a greater rate than you have ever imagined. You will get more done, earn more rewards, recognition, and esteem, have more doors opened for you, and experience more of the things that everybody refers to as 'luck.'
I'd recommend Brian Tracy's The Luck Factor.
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You guys are millionaires but you can't tell this is a troll. No hope for the fastlane. :smilielol:
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