Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Rarely does anybody "start from scratch", or do anything much without "wealth lurking in the family tree" ..... hard work alone doesn't make stuff possible.

I disagree

I started what is now CK Enterprises with nothing more than a meeting with a friend of a friend and £20 of diesel .

Contacts have been my main source of success, and stalking the right people at the right time seems to slowly but surely be paying off.

chris_m

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Finally got round to getting eyes tested - last done 6 years ago!

Hmm, I'm having mine done next week - last done somewhat more than 6 years ago :eek:

I've been managing perfectly well with el cheapo reading glasses of eBay for several years - +1 dioptre had working well for most reading whilst not being so strong that I need to keep putting them on and taking them off to move around home. For smaller print I need +2 dioptre so gawd knows what the test will reveal. Long distance vision is fine, the +1d specs don't make things any sharper, just a bit bigger. The main thing I want to be sure about is that I'm legal for driving, and that there are no unforeseen (sorry) problems that need attention.

Pyxis

Then there was Richard Branson.

I remember buying some LPs from Virgin records in the early seventies by mail order, which had previously been unheard of as a way of buying records!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

No, that must be his second cousin!,:D
I was thinking of William Stickers.

I was thinking of Alan Sillitoe's novel "The Death of William Posters" - tried reading it once but couldn't get into it.

Some signs used to read "Bill Posters" instead of "Bill Stickers"

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Then there was Richard Branson.

I remember buying some LPs from Virgin records in the early seventies by mail order, which had previously been unheard of as a way of buying records!

And Lord Sugar - he started out buying and selling mail order from his house. His company name was his initials and the first syllable of "trading", AMS & Trad.

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

I just love that to pieces!
Reminds me of the newt called Kinka!

I used to call my newt Tiny.

michaels

I bet loadsa nice people have net assets of more than 1 million.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I bet loadsa nice people have net assets of more than 1 million.

You looking in the mirror as you say that?

Nice people need somewhere to live and inner Herts is expensive!

For the record, all we've got we've done for ourselves (not that it is billions).

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

And Lord Sugar - he started out buying and selling mail order from his house. His company name was his initials and the first syllable of "trading", AMS & Trad.

Hahahahaha! The first stereo system I bought in the mid-seventies, consisted of separate items of kit by Amstrad!

I seem to have been giving these entrepreneurs a bit of a bunk-up towards their first million!

A million isn't that hard to achieve these days.
Some people I know started out thirty years ago with two properties in the sticks bought from the sale of their London house, which wasn't anything special, but due to the price differential, they could. They lived in one and turned the other into holiday flats, doing all the cleaning and maintenance and letting out themselves. Very hard work.
Then they sold that some years later, bought two ramshackle, decrepit houses on large plots, demolished them and built two small blocks of flats, and remortgaged their own house to get funds, etc.
they sold those flats and went on to do more. It wasn't long before, on paper, they were millionaires, just, but they'd done all the work themselves, raised the finance themselves, etc.

I lost touch with them, but they must be multi-millionaires,now, on paper, at any rate.

So I don't think it's that uncommon, really. It's all about having an idea, having the front to go for it, and putting in the hours and the hard work, not having holidays, but reinvesting the money in the business, etc. etc. for the first ten years!

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

I used to call my newt Tiny.

Stick him on a chocolate bar and he would be ....wait for it.........:D

Newt Tiny on the Bounty!




Ta-da! :rotfl: