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1. Invest -
Start young. In fact start while
you are in elementary school, kindergarten is
even better. It’s the beauty of compound
interest and over time your money will grow into
a nice nest egg. Okay if you are reading this
you are probably too old to start in elementary
school but you can get your kids hooked. As for
you the best plan of defense is to invest 50% of
your salary in a high risk market fund or the
penny stock market. You’ve got a 50-50 chance.
You’ll either make a million or be broke in 90
days.
2. Marry Rich -
Now how difficult can this be? All you need to
do is find someone who has loads of money and
marry them. Okay I didn’t say you’d be happy
just rich. Perhaps not a solution for most of us
but it apparently works for a few.
3. Win The Lottery -
Ya ya I know the odds of getting struck by
lightening are better than the odds of winning
the lottery but you can’t win if you don’t try
and it’s one of the few ways I know of that you
can get rich fast.
4. Rich Parents -
If you come from a wealthy family then you are
half way there. All you have to do is stay in
their good books and convince mom and dad to not
spend their money and leave it to you when they
pass. After all why should your parents get to
enjoy the wealth they reaped?
5. Get An
Education - Go to school for
lots of years, accumulate plenty of debt, and
choose a career that pays big bucks. After about
10 years in your profession you should be
rolling in the dough and you might even be
filthy rich before you get old.
6. Become A Star -
Heck if Jennifer Aniston or Nicolas Cage can do
it why can’t you. A couple of acting lessons and
you should be set. All you need to do is head to
Hollywood and strike it big. One good movie and
you’ll be set for life.
7. Invest In Real Estate -
Buy high sell low – whoops I think I got that
backwards. Buy low, wait 10 years, 20 years,
maybe even 30 years but inflation will have your
investment growing by leaps and bounds and you
could be filthy rich especially if you bought in
an up and coming city while house prices were
still low. Now if you bought in Hicksville USA
you may have a problem. It might take more than
your lifetime to see any dramatic increases. Oh
well you can leave it to your kids who can leave
it to their kids and in another 100 years or so
someone’s going to be sitting pretty.
8. The Internet Way -
Heck where have you been. A quick search on the
Web will reveal plenty of sites that will teach
you how to make $50,000 a day. Now I think most
of us could live quite comfortably on that don’t
you? All you need to do is part with about $500
and they’ll tell you the secrets of wealth in
one page or less. If the first one doesn’t do it
for you perhaps you might want to try a few
more. Oh wait a minute. Perhaps what you need to
do is set up one of these sights, then you’ll be
the one getting rich off the other poor fools
that part with their $500.
9. Bank Robbery -
Okay highly illegal and could land you
a lifetime in the slammer but desperate needs
require desperate measures. After all if you get
caught you might not be rich but you’ll have
free room and board for the rest of your life
and then you could write a book about what not
to do when robbing a bank and well see you could
get rich from your book. And even better, you’ll
stay rich because there is really no place to
spend it while in jail.
10. High Risk Work -
Take on those high risk jobs no one else wants.
You know counselor in Iraq, bean counter in
Afghanistan, Oil tycoon in Iran. But hey if you
live through it you’ll be rolling in the dough.
What does it matter that 99% never live through
it. You’ve got a 1% chance and when it comes to
getting rich those are pretty good odds.Sure
most of these ideas are pretty off the wall but
if getting rich fast was easy wouldn’t we all be
rich? Then what fun would there be in that? We’d
all have too much money and probably be bored to
tears. So why not aim for better life with good
friends, love, happiness, and enough money to
live comfortably but not so much that you stop
dreaming about what you would do if you were
rich.
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