It’s about a month that Forbes published its annual list of
Like always (or as usual) Mr. Gates, Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder, is the richest American. How much money he has? – Well, lot of. $ 50 billion.
Forbes studied these rich, wealthy and successful people to get their secrets.
One interesting and important thing that came out of the study is ‘Math’. You are right, math is involved here. A good number of these rich people’s parents were good in mathematics. So are the children. They can break numbers, play with them, and at the end of the road make money out of it. So mathematics or deep interest in ‘numbers’ is a key factor here.
ya ya yahoo!!. OK, the boss of Yahoo! Mr. Jerry Jang is a billionaire too
On the contrary many of the listed billionaires had M.B.A.s from world’s top-ranking universities. That means they are good at crunching numbers too. One good thing with higher education is that, the higher you study better you analyze the situation. Ok, that can either happen even if you just ended in college. So never mind.
Now, when you are good at maths, you can calculate your profits very well. This means
So the next big thing in their minds after being good at math is ‘profit’.
Remember what President Herbert Hoover said: “Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish”. Ohhh MANN…ohh Mann. Look, Mr. President was a great fisherman. He was fishing in the Oval Office from 1929 to 1933.
Well, Mr. Hoover was a politician and he knew ‘fishing’ or ‘how to fish(ing)’ very well. And obviously from his solemn statement we can guess that he applied his ‘fishing formulae’ on innocent fishes around him. While the fishes hooked in his fishing string, Mr. Hoover had the ‘smile’ on his face.
Like Mr. President, these billionaires of course know this ‘fish’ factor very well. Just imagine how much percent of pc owners use Microsoft’s products (OS, Office, games etc.), and how much percent of internet users search in Google. Don’t forget Apple’s iPhone. That means, these Great Guys are fishing very happily as well. Humm…..
Now come to the reality. Get back to yourself.
‘Imagination’. Rather than blaming your own self and grudging against your poor inheritance, better to start imagine a ‘bright future’ from today. It’s really not that important to be a billionaire, but it’s important to make some positive changes in life. Most of us don’t even need a million, just need a ‘simple, happy and healthy’ life. May be imagination can do some help there.
One harsher thing still remains to overcome. That’s, every time we read about rich and successful people and celebrities, what we do is the ‘biggest mistake’ in our daily life. We just look at the sky, but never look down at our feet to see what’s there. Former U.S Foreign Minister George Schultz (of Reagan Era) has the right philosophy here. He always believes to start from what he has, what’s within his reach, and then make the best out of it, and move to the next level. That should be aspirants real-life approach.
So, Good luck. Start a ‘New Day’ from here.
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