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- implied, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1631.) I don't have a billion dollars.
2.) ?? - beelz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+119I got about 999,999,999 reasons why I am not a billionaire ...
- friedrice, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9711. You're on Digg...
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -3/+71this article was useless, i'm already a billionaire
- cr4ft, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66Trump has an inflated ego, I'd rather listen to Mark Cuban and his advice than Trump.
I think we should all remember that billionaires like Gates and Cuban started with nothing, contrary to Trump who started with his fathers business worth over $150 M
Am I saying he's a bad businessman? No. But unfortunately not even a billion dollars can buy you a good personality. - adcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53Because I'm a Liberal Arts major?
- zizzy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+57Why would I want to marry Jessica Alba? She's probably a bitch. I just want to bang her a few times and that's it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53It's easy to become a billionaire. Invest heavily in the defense industry, steal two elections and install a puppet dictator to initiate a phony war on terror.
- nuttybar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42because i wasnt born one....and im like 19
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Hey, can I get my fries now?
- BeefBaron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Flawless Victory!
- hardwareguy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+45This article is not for me...i'm not that greedy.
I'll take Jessica Alba for just one night, record it and live it over and over again. - scstraus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Based on this article, it sounds like a miserable, paranoid, sleep deprived life. Well, back to the couch.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Employee: I don't need your crummy job, Mr. Employer! I've won the lottery!
Employer: Well, who needs employees? I won the lottery, too!
Window washers: We both won the lottery!
All: Why don't you win the lottery, too!
Announcer: The state lottery—where everybody wins! *Actual odds of winning: 1 in 380,000,000.* - thekarmastrike, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32I mostly just ask myself, "Why am I not married to Jessica Alba?"
- Jagula, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32I'm so ***** sick of hearing from Donald Trump about why I'm not rich.
The only chance most of us ever had at being billionaires was to be born born into a rich family, such as how Trump did. The moment you passed through your middle classed mother's vagina, you lost (probably) your only chance at any big money. - ClwnNinja, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31i hate donald trump's hair
- Gherald, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28"Plus, it gives off the aurora that you are omniscient (everywhere)."
That's where I stopped reading. - PsychoticClown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Not to nitpick, but there are lots who screw English enough as it is, so I feel I have to point out a slight error: blogger says "omniscient (everywhere)", but the proper word for everywhere would be "omnipresent", whereas "omniscient" means "all knowing". Just a bit of extra knowledge.
- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33I know why I'm not a billionaire. I don't have a billion dollars.
What I don't understand is why I'm not married to Jessica Alba. I've asked her hundreds of times. It's harder now with the restraining order but she knows it's me. - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Top Ten Reasons You're a Rich A-Hole
1. You don’t take vacations. You make a note of often reminding your co-workers (or
more effectively, your underlings) that only weaklings and whiners take vacations.
Besides, who wants people to think you let your family decide what you do with your
accumulated extra 4 hours a day you'd normally be spending in bed? (see #2)
2. Sleep is for the weak. Life is short. Why waste time extending it by getting a
healthful number of sleep hours? Life extension is for people who don't know how to
live like syphilitic kings.
3. You Have a short attention span. Interrupting people is a good way to minimize
their (more often than not) inflated self-worth and give you the upper hand. If you've
ever seen the Jerry Springer show, it's always the loudest one who wins by not letting
the others speak full sentences. If they don't like it, let them talk to the hand
instead as an option.
4. You Don’t depend on technology. Donald Trump doesn't even have an ATM card. Why
carry such a thing when credit cards can be used instead? Cash is only good for 2
things, tipping and giving money to the needy. One of these 2 is just silly, and the
other people should be happy enough to be in your presence, let alone serve you at your
table.
5. Being underestimated is a good thing. But be careful, it can be hard sometimes to
tell the difference between the guy that just brown-nosed you and and the guy at the
board meeting with a silent-bob-like, hands-on-the-face-home-alone overly surprised
look on his face.
6. You are a one-man army. If you keep thinking of yourself as just the general of
your one-man army, well, your just never going to get anything done, are you? You have
to be a very smart one-man army also. And you have to be the guy who gets the no-bid
contracts and the guy who doesn't give his soldiers the equipment they need so they
don't get "all uppity". On top of all that, you have to be the one man army who has
other people do the shooting and dodging and all that dangery stuff. As they say at the
country club, rough breeds scuff. And those are some expensive shoes, Joe.
7. Success Leads to More Success. And that success leads to even more, and so on and
so on. And when that success isn't enough, you start doing things like hiring 5 men
whose sole job is to scour third world brothels to find dark haired, blind, amputee, midget,
hair-lip prostitutes who are willing to pee in shoes for your amusement and thirst
quenching. And when you grow tired of that, it's on to the next success. Yay!
8. You Ponder each decision carefully. The only way your going to make bucket loads
of money is through a vast number of decisions throughout your career. Donald Trump
says that people should “treat each decision like a lover”. Weigh the financial costs
compared to the value of the sexual encounter with said individual. If it ends up
costing less than the blind midget amputee sex and it feels better, she may be worth marrying
for a while.
9. You Trust your family. But keep your enemies closer. And remember to get that
will written early and written well. If you want them to start fighting over you right
away, make sure a draft of the will accidentally leaks to the most jealous member of
your family. Then what's really funny is when a few months later you change who gets
what so that everyone who did really well in the first draft does really badly, then
leak the second draft to the same family member. Ooh, the looks you'll get. (Note: Now
may be the time to hire those food tasters.)
10. Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, risk did. Never take innovative risks. Only take
risks with a guaranteed payoff. You're not in the business of charity, after all.
You're in the charity of business.
( I didn't write this, it's from a blog .. but I'm not gonna blog spam ) - AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28@gawtmilk
what was the point of that?? - watchdis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24dude this article is lame. trump sucks
- picardo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Hey people. Do not forget that the only reason Trump is so rich is because he was BORN rich. His father was a wealthy construction magnate who left him his billion dollar business and and and he STILL squandered a huge chunk of that fortune because--SURPRISE, SURPRISE--he likes to acquire or build business properties that get a lot of publicity for him: casinos, and towering eyesores like the Trump Towers. Who needed a 110 story tower on upper east side anyway? It's just another example of this guy's astonishingly bad business instinct. How people continue to take this guy seriously as an oracle of success he proclaims himself to be is mystifying to me. That list sucks by the way. Don't take vacations? Sleep is for the weak? Give me a break!
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20While it is distantly possible to work oneself to riches, most people who are ultra-rich got it from their parents.
- Rocketbird, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20"If you’re an owner of a business and you always seem to be awake, even at the late hours of the night and the early hours of the morning, you’re a lot more likely to gain the respect and admiration of your employees."
..Or they're gonna think you're a total loser with no life outside of work. - jonesyhahaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Oh, so I just live my life by these ten rules and I'll make billions? Whoever knew it was so easy? Thanks Donald!
- TyPower, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19This is all *****. I happen to be a millionaire but I grew up lower middle class in another country. I recently got Donald Trump's invitation to some 'talk' that he was supposedly giving on how I could become rich. Funny. This invitation came in the form of a mass mailing in my letterbox in my neighborhood. I'm fairly rich by most people's standards. I live a few doors down the street from Paris Hilton in the Hollywood Hillls. I drive Porsches. I'm way happy. I read this ***** invitation in my letterbox with Trump's ugly mug on it and, on closer inspection of the fine print, I discover my invitation is actually an all expenses paid invitation to meet Donald Trump JR, his dead beat son, who, I suppose will tell me how I can become rich based on Trump principles.
What Trump and his kind do is use their position as 'famous rich people' to make even more money off dumb poor people which is ***** sick. The richness he advertises is not all its cracked up to be. I was once poor, now Im rich, and yet my life has only changed
in a surface fashion. True I worry not about food, clothing and shelter but once these are attained, is any man truly richer than another? All possess consciousness and once these needs are satisfied its very hard to say if one man is happier than another. Its subjective and based on individual self awareness. With the right awareness, each man can see that he is rich.
Its funny but its that very philosophy, the optimism and simplicity of my poor man's mind, thats made me a rich man! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17^^ Trump included.
That's a very good point. If you want to learn how to become rich, maybe you'd be better off reading a book by Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin. Even Warren Buffet (silver spoon and all) has a good mentality to emulate. Being the 2nd richest man in the world with a house and car that I could mistake for my grandma's... That guy is all about keeping frivilous expenses at a minimum.
Trump is a man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and was such a great businessman that he went bankrupt. Just what did he do to come back, anyways? - unknamed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18This article should be titled "Ten Reasons it Sucks to be Donald Trump"
Seriously... can't he just die now, or at least get off the damn TV so I don't have to look at his weird hair anymore. - krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -1/+14trump is a chump. he's selling a $30 book on how to get rich... he might as well say "convince other chumps to buy a book for $30 on how to convince chumps to buy a book for $30".
he's also doing some real estate investment crap that always plays as paid programming in the middle of the day and middle of the night. if these methods really truly were licenses to print money, then you wouldn't see infomercials about it because everything would be automated via computer. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If you experience any moral roadblocks along your road to happiness that could be rectified by giving away some of your money -- I'm your man.
- buckrogers1965, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Why would I want to be a billionaire if I never got to enjoy myself?
Never taking vacations, being sleep deprived, never being able to focus on anything for a length of time, not having conveniences, having opponents and competitors, never being able to depend on anyone else, never being able to take a break, treating every decision as if were make or break, having to deal with my family, treating everything as an opportunity to take advantage of.
These 10 things sound like a definition of hell.
I'll just keep on making what I make and taking half the year off every year. I love to read a book or watch movies for hours at a time everyday too. I like dating and meeting new women every couple of weeks or so. I sometimes focus on the same computer problem for months at a time.
Trump may be rich but he is missing out on life. I may just be upper middle class, but I am enjoying myself much more than he is. I wouldn't trade my life for his for all the money in the world. - RoshanK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1111) you spend money on books that tell you how to get rich
- kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10According to Forbes he is only worth $600 million so maybe he should STFU
- catullus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10am I the only one that got xtx7x's Ali G reference?
- crashbang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+111. Act like a douche at all times
2. Have a douche like haircut (it impresses the chicks)
3. Strut around like a douche
4. Have a douchy catchphrase for half baked pile of crap TV show like "You re fired"
5. Make sure everybody knows your a douche by publishing books about your douchy-ness
6. Act like you made yourself into a successful douche all on your own (it also impresses the chicks)
7. Build giant phallic symbols all over the earth in a douche like attempt to immortalize your doucheness
8. Have a hot yet douchy daughter to carry on your legacy. - Hale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My attention span is so short I didn't make it past #3.
- mochaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Lame he should of mentioned:
1. Risk taking or entrepreneurial spirit
2. Born in a wealthy family like his - cbbspike, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Stop blaming everyone. The only person to blame is us for the situation we find ourselves in. If we are not wealthy is because we made multiple decisions going in the direction of not been wealthy.
Education has nothing to do with wealth. I personally know and have heard of plenty of people who don’t even have a degree and are wealthy, or people who came from nothing and are wealthy.
The minute you stop blaming others, and take charge of your own life, it will be the minute you move forward to wealth.
In my mind is not greedy to want to have money, but to think only about money. - ultimad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If I'm a billionaire, why would I want to marry 'only' Jessica Alba!?
- jobenly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@picardo
Yeah, he left of my favorite reason why I'm not a billionaire: my parent's aren't.
Anyway, I don't care to be a billionaire. How would my life improve if I had a billion dollars instead of "just" 50 million? In fact, I only really need a few million (enough to retire forever on). - SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Lol, yep, hard to take an article seriously when they author doesn't know the meaning of the words he's using...
- UrbanVoyeur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Worthless banalities.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Don't blame the government. Blame the schools. They are the ones paying multi-million dollar coaching salaries, building stadiums that run tens of millions of dollars, constructing completely unnecessary facilities on campus. These are all things that are non self-supporting. How do they pay for that? Tuition and fee increases. It's sad when the library cuts journal subscriptions and departments are downsized, while at the same time the school adds a 2nd tier to the stadium seating. It's nice to have a good team, but the school team's season record doesn't make any student more ready for industry.
- sn0re, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9A certain class of people just naturally floats to the top for no real reason other than their ability to make friends. If you want a fancy word for it, it's "networking". Just think about your own situation. Of all the people you know, how many of them could get you a job? How many of them would invest money if you decided to start a new business? Probably just a small percentage. But if you know *a lot* of people, that small percentage becomes significant.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Well I skimmed the first 2 and went to to back to this tab and I laughed as I read the tile of the third point ...
Anyways, judging from what I can take from the first 2 points I'd rather not be a billionaire. I'd rather be happy. - caliguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Trump is the biggest fraud since Tootsie. His track record in real estate is far from perfect and all he does now is sell the idea that he is rich based on his wealth, which was inherited in the first place.
- alittletoohigh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ten reasons why Digg is a vehicle for blog advertising revenue.
...DUGG! - Square47, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I get so ***** tired of idiots talking about how you have to come from a rich family to be rich. Read the book: The Millionaire Next Door. Its something like 86 percent of American millionaires are first generation rich. That means being wealthy has nothing to do with tax breaks, rich families, hedge or trust funds. It is simply a figment of your god damn imagination. Hard work, determination, and purposeful spending and saving are how most get rich. You will probably handle 100's of thousands of dollars in your life. If you live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans...you will most likely be a broke ass senior citizen with tons of debt. You can do two things with money. 1) live like rich people = no debt, don't buy new cars (they go down too much in value), budget your money every month (like a business), learn to live off of less than you make. 2) live like poor people (I'm not talking about income...I'm talking about people that live paycheck to paycheck and overspend regardless of income) buy new cars often, never make a plan for your money, overspend monthly and use credit cards and 2nd mortgages to fund a lifestyle you can't actually afford. I guess I'm getting too far off on a tangent, but seriously. Take your ***** tinfoil hat off and stop thinking that there are all these crooked people out there giving money to rich people just to keep them in some elite society. Its just made up Hollywood *****. Its excuses that poor people espouse because they don't look to themselves to make the decisions and have the restraint that it actually takes to become rich.
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