There Are Two Ways To Be ‘Rich’

The first is to grind at the wheel, take small amounts of money as you acquire them and risk everything, fail early, fail hard, and fail often.
This usually works, but exactly how many times you will fail, and at what cost, is another matter. Personally, my number was “three”; that is, the third time I wound up with something durable (in terms of a large multiple of what I put in originally.)
But there’s a problem with this path — it takes a hell of lot out of you and if you “crack” before you hit your personal number of failures then you’re utterly screwed.
It forces you to be a bastard in some fashion, because the world is not a nice place. The people in it aren’t nice either, and a huge percentage of them not only will cheat, lie and steal, if they’re in a larger business than you are they’ll do it and the government won’t stomp on them even if what they’re doing is illegal.

This post was published at Market-Ticker on 2017-09-04.