Gina Rinehart: How to become rich

[Hottentot]

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The richest woman in the world has a message for all you normals out there: Becoming rich is as easy as putting down that beer and getting off your ass.

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"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain,” Rinehart wrote. “Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.”

Funny. In principle I agree with her and yet she comes across as so utterly naive. I may not have lived for very long yet, but in that time I have been in many different kinds of jobs, ranging from cleaning toilets and training dogs to qualified academic work in a museum. I have known people who have been unemployed for a long time and people who have lived on the social welfare. And during that time I don't recall a single occasion when I've met that jealous lazy stereotype bum whom dear Gina here seems to find so common. But I guess they exist and that's why not everyone can be rich? Or maybe that huge inheritance helped a little along the way?

And yet I agree with her that if you want something done, complaining and blaming everyone else of how unfair your life is isn't going to help. Sure, I know those people as well. They are not complaining for not being rich, but complaining nevertheless. Been doing that for years now last I checked.

Still, I can't fathom how distanced from the reality of the "normal folks" you have to be to say something like that. That's like me saying that the world hunger is solved by growing more food, lack of electricity is solved by building more sockets and the economic crisis is solved by printing more money. I wish I lived in such a simple world. Would be easier.

[Betonov]

They exist, trust me. And all of them not farther than a kilometer from my home

[HunterICX]

^What? Slovenians...Oh the horror

and it's bloody weekend no way I'm going to put down this beer and get off my ass!

Then there's this fact since when does beeing rich guarantee that you'll be happy?
I know of people that work their asses of just to go on 3 - 4 holidays a year, affort 3 cars, have 5 HD TV's throughout the house so every family member can watch their favorite version of ''Look I haz talent show'' in HD, having the wife go on shopping spree on sunday and redecorate their whole house every 1 or 2 years.
Are they happy? they say they are....by adding the thing they've recently acquired at the end of their sentence

HunterICX

[mookiemookie]

Strange advice coming from an heiress. What a naive idiot.

Tell that to the lawn guys who are outside right now at 6:30 AM working on a Saturday. Tell that to the farmworkers who pick all the crops from sunup to sundown. Tell that to the West Virginia coal miners who break their backs and get black lung. Tell that to the guy working 90 hours a week with the startup company that fails. Tell that to anyone who busts their ass just to make enough to get by.

Bill Gates: "Luck played an immense role (in my success). Some of it came after I entered the business world, but my lucky streak started much earlier than that...Our timing in setting up the first software company aimed at personal computers was essential to our success. The timing wasn't entirely luck, but without great luck it couldn't have happened."

[STEED]

When her father died in 1992, he left the mining mogul $75 million

Anyone with common sense would have retired and enjoyed life, clearly she is a miserable cow who worships money, what a sad women she is. I rather be poor and have real happiness in my life, I don't need to buy happiness unlike her.

"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," Rinehart wrote. "Do something to make more money yourself -

Sure...As if I will be given Billions...Shut your face Bitch!

Let it stack up in your vault and do nothing with it...BTW are you one of these super rich who have hidden billions from the tax office? People like this Bitch * me off big time.


I'm sure if BossMark sees this he will have a few choice words to say...Over to you BossMark.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Strange advice coming from an heiress. What a naive idiot.

She has succeeded in multiplying her inheritance pretty nicely, though, so props for that.

Still, at least Finns and probably other people too have a saying: "Money comes to money." Give any of those people she so chastises here that 75 million inheritance, and I reckon there would sudden surge of new rich investors. Not everyone, of course, investing takes skill and work as well, but without having lots of money in the first place it's difficult to invest it and make lots of money. People need to, I don't know, pay their bills, eat and do other such apparently irrelevant stuff.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

She has succeeded in multiplying her inheritance pretty nicely, though, so props for that.

She inherited an iron mining business. Iron has gone from around $15 a ton when she inherited the business in 1992 to $187 a ton in Feb 2011. It's backed off a bit and is now around $130 a ton, but the point still stands.

It looks like the only thing she's worked hard at is screwing the rest of the family out of the money in the trust: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Ri...ife_and_family