Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire is it better to become rich?

People that work themselve,s up to being rich are good to go.

Inheritance babies riding another generations work and being ballers about it.
Just as soon punch em in the forehead and put em in their place.

Sadly, many "rich" people know how poor they
are.

plenty folk have built up their own wealth to lose it all one way or another.

keeping it is harder than making it for a good many.

ie; getting rich from 'hard work scratch' doesn't mean one is a good wealth manager.

Just a few ideas about money I've learned over a lifetime. You must control your wants or you simply cannot earn or inherit enough to outrun them. Once you have the basics covered, the rest is wants. We can generally afford what we value most highly. Some people are jealous of wealth but they'd be wealthy too if they just saved a little and invested a little over a long time span.

That's what I like about Trump. He didn't squander the $289 million he got from his daddy. I would have gone to the casino.

Yes, Pesident Donald Trump was taught to invest it in buildings. Many people would de broke by now from divorce, lawsuits, gambling, ETC. Look at Mike Tyson, he was worth 300 million dollars and has very little today. Had a smoking hot wife, money, health, but did not control himself.

Trump went to the casino, and bought it.

He also went to the golf course, after he built it.

Truly wise.

Luck will not keep you rich even if it gets you there.
Wisdom and hard work won't get you there alone.

There are many hard working and tight assed poor people.
Their decisions maximized their money, but for various reasons they
never got rich.

Luck does play a role.
One many "self made" people want to deny.
To acknowledge it, diminishes their legacy.


I have been moderately lucky.
I was born healthy,
To parents that cared for me,
who taught me to work hard.

Tragedies in our family taught me that
things beyond our control would control your life.
Control what you can. That's good luck in bad.

$$ wealth? Depends on who holds the ruler.
Comfortable for sure.

So people who luck onto wealth, is it purely random or a Gods Will thing?

Gods will that a person be subject to mere chance, or is it fated?



he seems to be doing alright after losing that 300 million and his wife etc

so maybe they were only deceptive distraction tools of learning in his life.

kind of sad that people often will put someone on an altar because of their money or what their wife looks like,
..lose the money and wife [that complete strangers admire or desire]...and you topple down from the fickle lofty
ranks they once had you at ..LOL.

one of the hardest things to know for wealthy people, is knowing who your real friends are.
Its no wonder some become reclusives.

Habits.

A good start is to be able to say no to yourself.

My father-in-law used to say it was better to be rich and well than sick and poor. ;-{>8

My father came to this country at 5 years old and ended with a 5th grade education. His first job, he earned 3 cents a day at 9 years old. He ended up a journeyman machinist making a decent living .Being the last son with 3 siblings, I worked untiI got two years of college and end up as a program manager and mechanical engineer without a 4 year degree, leading 50-65 people . Many of them PHD's. My son ended up with 4 years of college as a chemists with a very good job.. My grandson with 8 years of college and is an eye doctor.

Work ethic, determination, and intelligence making the right decisions and not squandering money might not make you rich by some standards, but will get you comfortable. I think it helps to start off poor. A person has a better sense of what they have and what it takes to get it.

It's no sin to be poor, but it is mighty uncomfortable .

I do not recall who said this but it was some very wealthy man. When asked about "rich and poor" he said, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better."

L.W.

Better to be content.

That’s what I was thinking. I’d like to try it for a while and see. 🤠

Barely second gen American Italian (both folks conceived in Italy) that grew up well fed and clothed with parents that pushed us to succeed and worked their azzes off. The three of us have done fine as has their grandchildren.

I thought it was good to be rich, but after I got my tax bill today from my accountant, I'm having second thoughts. I worked a year as a defense contractor making low six figures, that was supposedly tax free for the first $103K, boy was I wrong. My wife and I have worked our butts off to get higher educations and try to be productive member of society and set examples for our kids. No matter what though, I don't think I would change a thing. I am working on a second retirement, and one day will get to enjoy what the wife and I worked hard for.

But Big Jim is probably right as per usual.

Yes sir.
Matthew 6:19-21 comes to mind, as does Philippians 4:19

I was paying for gas a few months ago and the girl asked me if I needed lottery tickets. I replied that I was already very rich. She gave me a funny look and I explained to her that my family was healthy, my house was paid for, no kids on drugs and both doing well, a good job and food enough for two families. "I'm rich", I said.

I could have listed several other things on that list, including God's grace on my life, which is the source of real richness.