Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Stick him on a chocolate bar and he would be ....wait for it.........:D
Newt Tiny on the Bounty!

Groan

Shall I get your coat?

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Groan

Shall I get your coat?

Yeah, forgot to say that! :rotfl:

CKhalvashi

Pyxis wrote: »

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

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!

Counting net worth as being theoretical is stupid anyway. I count what I have as what's in the bank/easily accessible by sale if necessary, meaning that I'm probably worth a fair bit under £1m.

With businesses, the first £1m is usually relatively easy; it's getting over that that is the more difficult part.

SingleSue

I used to talk to Alan on the phone all the time before he became Lord Sugar, Amstrad (and Memtek, a subsidiary company) was one of my accounts that I was in charge of at the shipping office I was working at at the time. To further the connection, my now ex mother in law and hubby were 'friends' with him at their local airfield many years ago, they didn't like him very much.

My assets are nowhere near a million, all told, probably a couple of thousand at the most.

Youngest is narrowing down the universities he may like to visit and apply for now. He has visited one which he likes but the others always seem to do open days at times when we already have something organised!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

I'm eating cold sausages while trying to figure out new software after more than a few frosty beverages.

This may not end well.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

CKhalvashi wrote: »

With businesses, the first £1m is usually relatively easy; it's getting over that that is the more difficult part.

Indeed.

I'm on my third million...... The first two proved far too elusive to hang on to.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

So the neighbours have now moved onto singing...

Whatever it is seems to end up with a very loud "Woooo" at the end of every chorus.

I'm torn between having a few more drinks and joining in with the singing, and knocking on their door with some stern words and a bad attitude.

Mrs McT seems to be firmly against the latter option and has just poured me a large one.... Wise woman.

Pyxis

PN, the answer is often very hard work, often doing two jobs; the day job to keep the wolf at bay and the 'idea' in all the other spare hours.

Yes, it helps to start young, before you have a family, and perhaps even before having a mortgage, as then you have the time and energy.

In every case I've read about, it's been due to hard, hard, work, long hours, no social life and ploughing everything back in, so going without a lot of things that others would feel an 'entitlement' to.
It's also due to taking chances, calculated chances maybe, but chances nevertheless.

I knew a long time ago that I wouldn't be a millionaire, because a) I'm not that single-minded, and b) have a tendency to laziness! :rotfl:

I might stick at something for a while, then go off the boil!
I'm also a scaredy-cat, I like security and wouldn't take a lot of chances!

Having said that, I did start a business and built it up from nothing, by working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for quite a long time, and I made an average living from it, but never got to the 6 noughts! :rotfl:

hjd

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So the neighbours have now moved onto singing...

Whatever it is seems to end up with a very loud "Woooo" at the end of every chorus.

I'm torn between having a few more drinks and joining in with the singing, and knocking on their door with some stern words and a bad attitude.

Mrs McT seems to be firmly against the latter option and has just poured me a large one.... Wise woman.

I think I'd have started the hoovering by now, with music to accompany it.
Am always awake early so can't cope with late nights in general.

michaels

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So the neighbours have now moved onto singing...

Whatever it is seems to end up with a very loud "Woooo" at the end of every chorus.

I'm torn between having a few more drinks and joining in with the singing, and knocking on their door with some stern words and a bad attitude.

Mrs McT seems to be firmly against the latter option and has just poured me a large one.... Wise woman.

I am hoping the two of them took the bottle and wandered next door....