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Bill Murray said try being rich before being rich and famous. I'm rethinking the rich part.

• nostrademons 5y ago
  Rich is better than famous. Plenty of people are quietly rich and basically just go about their business and live their lives, secure in the knowledge that there's money in the bank if they need it. There's no such thing as quietly famous. Many of pitfalls of being rich & famous, like greedy enablers and a larger-than-life lifestyle, stem from the "famous" part.
  • lapetitejort 5y ago
    The key is to slowly become rich. Tony Hsieh died at 46, around the time most pre-rich people haven't even made it out of upper middle class. Amass wealth slowly and your poor grifting friends will slowly be replaced with rich friends whose grifts will at least have a chance of return.
    • black_13 5y ago
      Yes thats it.
  • ipaddr 5y ago
    You see many examples of quiet famous people from Letterman, Carson, Conan or most politicians or most actors like Nicole Kidman. The ones making the headlines are a small percentage.