Why is it that some people work very hard and never experience wealth? After all, we have all been told that “hard work” is the key to economic success.
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Hard at work fucking honest people out of their money.
Honest people do not like making other peoples lives harder.
Why are politicians so rich?????
My son Hunter is one of the smart. Er, smert i mean smartest people I know.
He works hotter uhm. Harder, harder than mysoft. I mean myself.
let me try that again.
Hunter is a hard workin dude. I trust him. So should you. The ChYneeze do. No wait scratch that last part. Patzaki, Red, which where do I walk to now?
It is the doing of the work that is half of success. Think about your greatest feelings of accomplishment, satisfaction – they came because you went beyond what was expected of you, regardless the particular accomplishment. People are too focused on the money, but it is the relationships, the small daily successes, that matter most. With hard, focused work with goals in mind success is inevitable – but doing the work is as valuable as the result.
Hard work is its own reward. If you do a good job even if its a crummy job and give it all you’ve got got sooner or later the job and its benefits will all work out or you’ll get a better job. Shirkers and slackers don’t get anything but one miserable job after another and wonder why they’re not getting anywhere. And besides no one likes to have to make up for the work the shirkers and slackers don’t or won’t do.
NOW they tell me…..
Incoming revenues are only about 10% of the equation.
I have a morning line-up of radio preachers and this morning one of them talked about the Biblical foundation, the spiritual imperative of working hard. Quite a long time ago it came to me that God is my “boss”, and that no matter what I’ve committed to doing for a pay check, I keep that in mind constantly. I begin each work day with an ambitious list of what I want to accomplish and then I stand quietly and praise God, thanking him for the work and the health and endurance to see it through. I ask for additional physical strength and stamina by the power of the Holy Spirit and when I’m tempted to do a “good enough” job, I remember who my boss is and how every thing I do is to glorify him. Amazing how work changes. My job is my ministry and when the time is right I often share this “philosophy” with my non-believing clients. Planting seeds; waiting for the harvest. ๐
What good is hard work today when most of it is stripped from you in ever higher taxes, rent, fees, license, permits, insurance etc….
“After all, we have all been told that โhard workโ is the key to economic success.”
It’s not THE key, it’s only one of several equally important factors (for example, having the ability to make smart choices and having the discipline to see them through). Hard work by itself will only get you so far.
There’s hard work, and then there’s smart work.
I’ve always tried to emulate that one millionaire who, when asked how he became so wealthy, answered: “I put my heart into my business, 60-70 hours each week. And finally, after 26 grueling years, I finally picked the right lottery numbers.”
Someone once warned of gaining the whole world but losing your eternal, never-dying soul.
Now consider how many people are content when the world they drive themselves to gain is not necessarily wealth but a mere passing trifle like sex, youth, physical fitness, fame, etc.
Even sadder when you think of it that way, isn’t it.
Maybe you even find it a bit convicting?
When ever I’m leaving someone and they say ‘don’t work to hard’ I ask why’s that?
They never seem to have a good answer.
It’s drilled into us all the time.
Most foreigners that moved here long ago are well to do with homes that are paid for. Hard work had something to do with it maybe.
it all depends on how one defines ‘wealth’ …. doesn’t it?
I have often felt that most wealthy people have taken advantage of others in some form or anotherโฆ.not all but most.
I live in a very liberal state with high taxes and people moving out for decades.
Weโre losing even more electoral votes.
This state has made their employees VERY rich, with hundreds of thousands of state retirees who draw $100,000+ pensions after retiring at the age of 55, doing nothing even closely resembling work.
– Counselors, gym teachers, home ec teachers, state cops, bureaucrats.
Oh, and they get very generous ost of living pension increases every year, and medical insurance, to boot.
Watched the video. It’s pollyanna. True that “hard work” is only part of the equation. But “value” to others isn’t the rest of it. The narrator is missing some things. “Hard work” is not just physically hard work or long hours. It also can be “mentally hard work, and some people are better at that than others. Also, sometimes it’s not actual value of what is produced, but the “perception of value” (which includes bullshit and corruption as well as the usual PR and marketing.) There’s also the factor of supply and demand. And finally, don’t tell me that Chelsea Clinton, e.g. ever worked hard, ever produced anything that anyone thought has any real value, or possessed particular skills of any sort beyond maybe some small measure of minor access to or tit-for-tat vis a vis her parents.
“A man’s worth a dollar a day from the neck down.
From the neck up, you can’t put a price on him.”
(Ford (may not be an actual quote, but a paraphrase))
izlamo delenda est …
What a bunch of crap.
You choose the task you will do for work.
You get paid according to that task.
Different task = different pay.
Not according to the end product unless you hold patents and get residuals.
Worked hard all my life, always been the first to volunteer for a project took very little time off, didn’t call off my last 33yrs working. Payed off bills first, saved all I could,one vacation if that a year. Never made over 23.75hr, my wife started working when our third child was in jr.high, she worked 30yrs. What did we get? Retired early,no mortgage,new vehicles paid in full, everything we could want or need and still healthy enough to enjoy it.
A simple satisfying life of freedom! Love it.
Working hard is important, but working hard in an area to solve problems that not many people can solve, especially if it’s a common problem is a great way to build an income stream. If you pursue a work path that is saturated with people already doing it, you’ll work harder with less returns.
Once you’ve established a decent income stream, you need to manage your life to live well within that income stream and save/invest the rest. Always remember that time in market pays off a lot better in the long run than trying to time the market, which is just gambling.
I’m just an IT goon with a few specialized skills. I’ve been at it for 30+ years. I just turned 60 but have been a millionaire for a few years now. Hardly rich by today’s standards, but I’ve never done anything illegal nor that I should be ashamed of.