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Which will make you rich? Street-smarts or book-smarts?
Most billionaires dont have diplomas, Richard Branson cant even use a laptop. but others like Bill Gates might not have diplomas but he's definately book-smart, so is Warren Buffett.
Many people on the other hand have diplomas but are stuck in a boring and non-paying job.
Others have nothing and are multi-millionaires.
So which is best? Street-Smarts or Book-Smarts?
Open up the topic if you feel necessary!
I have no idea. I think that you have to have a little of both combined. you got to have a little bit of this and a little bit of that. you might need a lil street smarts bacause it help you sell the product and help you be more reasonable. It will be affordable for everyone and be sold everywhere. you need some book smart cause you can invent new and inproved things, which you can make alot of money off of., but you will need to know how and where to sell it. you would need both to be successful for a long time.
I think it takes both. Book smarts can teach you theory, but it's street smarts that helps with practical application. on the other hand, street smarts can take a long time to acquire. So book learning helps you pick up the experiences that other people have had to learn before you.
I'd go with both.
Poor equals dumb or dumb equals poor. Any kind of smarts should help you to avoid poverty (not get rich) getting rich requires a lot of things like being in the right place at the right time or being born to the right parents. Luck plays a role and where you are born etc plays a role. Immigrants are a good example, those who come to the US with some skills/some smarts often own property and business's in a short period of time passing up native born people who are 2 and 3 generations of poverty. course if you have the misfortune to be born in 3rd world country you probably cannot avoid poverty.
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and also followed by some book knowledge to get yourself polished to some extent and also to have the understand of the relevant terms.
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I would say a combonation of both, but don't overdo it on either
Bill Gates – Being a Giver
It would look like Bill Gates is the most loathed man in the USA, and may be you too share the same feelings.
You have no reason to. this man is among the most philanthropic men to be found on the face of the planet today. with his foundation called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he donates more than 1.5 billion dollars each year to the charity. Just pause for a moment and think of this figure, wow!
Remember Bill Gates just tendered his resignation to Microsoft to spend all his time with the Foundation and to give his whole life to the charitable work. this is the kind of guy most would still talk about as an asshole. It must be a case of sour grapes; the unsuccessful people having a negative attitude about Bill Gates.
Now you must be wondering if Microsoft is totally unblemished. may be not, but there are likely to be more evil corporate in America.
Generally, Microsoft is respectable and Bill Gates too, and that is why we celebrate his success, achievements and social activities. he has become a role model to many of how one can climb to great wealth from the scratch.
The bottom line is that one must be a taker before he can become a giver or else there would be nothing to give out. there is no virtue in trying to remain small in order to appear humble.
Maybe Bill Gates had an idea about this and so he tried hard to turn himself into a person who had the capacity to make an impact in the world. if you are just sitting there wondering what your meager savings can do, what about asking yourself what you are doing to make your society better?
What Bill Gates is doing to help the world is huge, ranging from the AIDS research funding, alleviating hunger in the world, and just trying his best to be an excellent person internationally.
There is a wrong attitude in some who tend to think that those who are successful and wealthy are very evil, greedy and selfish people. such an attitude should be purged from our midst because how will anyone ever aspire to become wealthy if he thinks all the rich people are just evil? It means in his mind he is the good person and so he should just remain poor.
who is the richest person in the world??
-Carlos Slim Helu?
-Warren Edward Buffett?
-Bill Gates?
i keep hearing its Bill Gates, but i know that, Carlos Slim surpassed him last year.. but what about this “Buffett” guy??