Wealthy people, how did you earn it? What do you do? Are you happy?

Answer 1

I made/make my money through sales.
Most of it is through the net.

I'm a home worker meaning I work @ home and love it. I do not work full time anymore. 95% of my income comes via online.

I Have good and bad days still(just like most others) but never complain as there are many more people worse off than I.

2 quotes I learnt from years ago are as follows:

Wages Give You A Living. Profits Give You Lifestyle.
&
You should never spend 5 minutes complaining because you will have just wasted 5 minutes.

The key to making a good income online is to be teachable and find some one to teach you and never give up.

Hope that helps you some.

All the best from New Zealand

Answer 2

Weathy is really subjective. I look good on paper though, LOL.

I am a single mother, 3 kids, work at home at a regular job. This pays the bills, plus health care, the real reason I work. I have a disabled child and my insurance pays well over 200k a year for her medical needs.

I invested heavily in the stock market in the 90's. Made more money then you would believe. I whine and moan about the 40k I lost, but it was small potatoes.

I have invested heavily in real estate as of the last few years. Collected up 20 houses, mostly foreclosures. These pay for my own house and a couple of vacation homes for the kids and I, as well as a couple of serious vacations every year.

SO that is how I earned it and what I do. Also, bought my first house at 19, so homeownership has always helped me.

Happy? Yes, very happy, life is pretty much stress free...except when I have vacencies!

Answer 3

In general, people who accumulate wealth are very careful about how they spend their money. If there's a Wal-mart next to a casino, you'll find the millionaires shopping at Wal-mart and the wage-earners in the casino, convinced that luck and prayer can increase their wealth.

Wealthy people do not buy lottery tickets. When they have money, they buy conservative stocks or Treasury bills. When they don't have money, they stop spending and work until they do, using their wits to live as cheaply as possible.

Wealthy people don't, in the main, consider it bright to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a wedding or a cruise. They will, on the other hand, spend that sort of money on education. Wealthy people do not live beyond their incomes, and they figure their incomes only after removing a fairly large chunk to place in savings.

Happiness is another story altogether. Good business instincts have comparatively little to do with enjoying life except to the extent that it's nice to not have to worry about money. However, there can always be something else to worry about if you wish there to be, and this often happens.

The wealthy don't enjoy better health than ordinary people, and are distinctly aware that money usually won't help either mental or physical health.

Occupations? They can be anything. I once had a lady-friend whose brother had a severe learning disability. He couldn't really do anything but the simpler forms of janitorial work. But he understood people and money, and lived a modest life, and eventually he began a janitorial firm that made him exceedingly wealthy.

And not far away from him, in the fancier suburbs of that city, there are prominent surgeons who live from one paycheck to the next and juggle their credit cards to the nickel to get through each month.

Answer 4

I'm not wealthy but unfortunately been around people who are. Most of them are miserable because they are worried about keeping it, they are worried about having to pay too many taxes, worried about leaving too big or too small a tip. Worried about how their children will keep it after they are dead.
They get it from their trust funds from parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents. Some own businesses, Some have had the benefit of good investments and can pay the best brains to do good investing on their behalf. Some of them , a small percentage, work hard and can delay gratification permanently and people find out that a bag person left a million dollars to a hospital or create a endowment
So it is a mixed bag.

Answer 5

Worked hard all my life. I am wealthy because I am married and not alone. Whatever financial security and creature comforts I can provide for myself is just a bonus. Money can't make you happy. My millionaire acquaintance once explained it to me like this: "Well, I eat good. But I still have the same brain."

Am I happy? I have ups and downs like everybody else. Thanks for asking.

Answer 6

Find happy people at www.kelzen.com and see what they do and especially where they do a happy job.
But be careful - there are also disgruntled employees - don't waste time with them.

Answer 7

It vulgar to talk about money

Answer 8

No, all I do is think of how to invest it.