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Regarding the point about his good fortune of being born in 1835, I wonder what the date is for new tech billionaire CEOs. The article made me wonder if we are in our own little gilded age now. Mark Zuckerberg: 1984 Larry Page: 1973 Sergey Brin: 1973 Elon Musk: 1971 Michael Dell: 1965 Jeff Bezos: 1964 Jack Ma: 1964 Masayoshi Son: 1957 Steven Ballmer: 1956 Bill Gates: 1955 Steve Jobs: 1955 Paul Allen: 1953 Larry Ellis…
Nice introduction, but I admit I was a bit disappointed to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme".
"to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme"." It's stressed in the article that the most important thing to get rich is to be born around 1835, so you could start with this.
Nice introduction, but I admit I was a bit disappointed to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme".
Right. Clemens put large sums into a typesetting machine project, but it was a dud.[1] One of the prototype machines still exists. [1] http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi50.htm
There seems to be an error: "The family’s annual food bill was $80 a month." For a person earning $1.50 per day, that would have been a whopping monthly food bill.
I know back in the late 70s/early 80s my grandmother talked about buying a sack of flour, bags of beans, tubs of butter, and similar staple foods for pennies each, and that would have been the 1930s.
There seems to be an error: "The family’s annual food bill was $80 a month." For a person earning $1.50 per day, that would have been a whopping monthly food bill.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"to not get even one "get-rich-quick scheme"." It's stressed in the article that the most important thing to get rich is to be born around 1835, so you could start with this.
No for a couple of reasons. First, the connotation to "get-rich-quick" is that it's a foolish endeavor that usually results in loss. So I was expecting to see some amusing failures. Secondly, being born at the right time isn't "quick", unless you are perhaps speaking of the conception effort involved.
Am I the only one getting fake amazon popups on that page?
Regarding the point about his good fortune of being born in 1835, I wonder what the date is for new tech billionaire CEOs. The article made me wonder if we are in our own little gilded age now. Mark Zuckerberg: 1984 Larry Page: 1973 Sergey Brin: 1973 Elon Musk: 1971 Michael Dell: 1965 Jeff Bezos: 1964 Jack Ma: 1964 Masayoshi Son: 1957 Steven Ballmer: 1956 Bill Gates: 1955 Steve Jobs: 1955 Paul Allen: 1953 Larry Ellis…
Regarding the point about his good fortune of being born in 1835, I wonder what the date is for new tech billionaire CEOs. The article made me wonder if we are in our own little gilded age now. Mark Zuckerberg: 1984 Larry Page: 1973 Sergey Brin: 1973 Elon Musk: 1971 Michael Dell: 1965 Jeff Bezos: 1964 Jack Ma: 1964 Masayoshi Son: 1957 Steven Ballmer: 1956 Bill Gates: 1955 Steve Jobs: 1955 Paul Allen: 1953 Larry Ellis…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No for a couple of reasons. First, the connotation to "get-rich-quick" is that it's a foolish endeavor that usually results in loss. So I was expecting to see some amusing failures. Secondly, being born at the right time isn't "quick", unless you are perhaps speaking of the conception effort involved.
It's an excerpt from a book, as it says at the bottom and I imagine there's also some expectation the reader is generally aware Mark Twain was involved in many unsuccessful business ventures throughout his life. The excerpt provides a bit of context.