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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (616913)6/21/2011 5:48:29 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1577951
 
>> Not always. Or even often. Usually it is a happenstance thing. Over the past decades, it has usually been a function of how highly placed you are in a company. And that is often who you know, not what you know.

Go tell that to the CEO of the company you work for. Let's see how long you last.

I've yet to meet a businessman who believes that.

You seem to think most wealth is acquired by winning the lottery. It isn't. It is people who have good ideas and/or are willing to work hard to make things happen.

Gates and Buffett didn't get wealthy because of happenstance. They were uber-capitalists from the outset. Some people fall ass-backwards into money, but even then, that money was almost always a result of someone's hard work and capitalist instinct.
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