Are there any REAL example of people who came from nothing and became a millionaire or better?

A quick google search will tell you all of those started relatively big.
Im not denying they didnt do amazingly well with the money they had, george soros became one of the richest men, and thats certainly a prestation worth noting but again he did not start at the bottom. I feel its much easier to multiple money than it is to start with 0.
I want to believe but this is from so long ago its hard to prove his history or to prove him wrong.

that sounds plausible it made me remember I knew a guy like that, taxi driver that took over a dying company then turned things around, now in his 70s regurarly ordering russian hookers to his mansion

It may be stupid but your anecdotal evidence and my memory made me realize that yes it is possible.

I made this thread because I have a plan for myself but I find it extremely hard to believe I wont get fucked over and cucked out of my money by someone else

thank you Yea Forums

Exceedingly few. Capitalism is meant to be a caste system that nobody's allowed to escape.

No:

Abramovich started his multibillion-dollar business during his army service. After a brief stint in the Soviet Army, Abramovich married his first wife, Olga. Abramovich first worked as a street-trader, and then as a mechanic at a local factory. At the peak of perestroika, Abramovich sold imported rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment.

The son of a single mother who worked as a bartender, Troutt grew up in public housing in Mount Vernon, IL.

DeJoria spent two years in the United States Navy,[7] serving on the USS Hornet.[9] After that, he held a series of jobs including janitor, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman and insurance salesman.[10][11]

DeJoria entered the world of hair care as an employee of Redken Laboratories. He was fired from this position, he claims over a disagreement on business strategies. In 1980, he formed John Paul Mitchell Systems with hairdresser Paul Mitchell and a loan for $700 and while living in a car

Founder of BET was ghetto poor and now a billionaire. I don't think that Warren Buffet came from any special background. Also I forget who but the one time CEO of Ford started on the maintenance staff and worked his way up through the ranks.

I have a cousin that has made well over $200 million in software over the last two decades. Came from a very middle class family. Chill and mellow guy, feel good for him.

Soros had friends in high places. He sold his whole town out to the Nazis

that is true, if you got the money to go to the best schools, the best healthcare and the least stress possible it much easier to become succesful

Its so easy to get fucked over in life but people dont want to face reality because reality is negative, and we all need to be delusional and positive

>Abramovich started his multibillion-dollar business during his army service
his grandfather was already a successful bussiness man and invested in him.
thats not nothing, be careful, a lot of these rich folks leave out certain details of their past to make it look like they worked harder than they did.

you posted 0 evidence but i believe it

Chinh Chu -- billionaire hedge-fund manager who escaped the vietnam war when he was an adolescent with quite literally nothing

I started life as one of only two White kids in my section of the Bronx (my brother was the other White kid) to a single mother who did typing shit for the phone company and working at a laundromat on the weekends. I ended up in spe dial education for behavioral problems, and I stopped going to school a few weeks into 9th grade. I got my first fulltime job at 16 as a drywall laborer. My mom had no connections, and the rest of my family were poorer than us (we had internet as early as 1996!). She had no one to help her. There were a couple boyfriends, but after one of them beat me up one day when I was about 8 or 9, she just stopped dating.

Now I'm 35. I started vending company in 2017, and I just had my best year, with just over $600k in profit. My partner and I just picked up a vending contract at a large university that we expect to do $130-150k a year by itself. We're expanding all the time. The ultimate goal is to build it up to the point where we're legitimate competitors for the larger vendors in our area, and then entertaining offers to buy us. My partner did this once before. He started a small vending company with about $20k. Four years later, he and his two partners sold the company for a profit of $1.3mil each.

If our plan works out, I'd be using my share of the money from selling the vending company to start buying properties I'd rent out or fix up and sell at a profit. Before vending, I was a home renovator. So fixing up my own properties isn't a daunting undertaking for me.

TL;DR I consider myself to be (or soon will be) the kind of person OP is talking about. I'm sure having no family money or connections makes things harder. Maybe I would have been at the level I'm currently at ten years earlier if I had someone who could have helped me. But progressing without a leg up isn't impossible

I come from the "ghetto" in NYC and have navigated myself into a high-tier hedge fund and last year netted ~2m bonus on top of a 140k salary. I think I am on track to >1% wealth.

I would not credit my intelligence but rather I got lucky in terms of networking, so that is undeniably a factor.

And socialism is meant to be a system thats fucked from the start. Nobody wins everyone loses.
I’d rather have a few winners and small losers than a system thats fucked from the get go.
But hey, don’t take my word for it. Go ask Venezuela
>inb4 “IT WAS NEVER DONE THE RIGHT WAY”
because it can’t be done the right way

Im glad you found success, the renovation thing you mentioned is something I hear a lot from self made millionaires. Some dont even bother to fix things, they just buy houses cheap from people who are pressured due to divorces or losing their job and sell at a profit.
Now that you have the money, itll be easier to grow it or to keep it.

Soros was born in 1930.
Do the maths you conspiracy swallowing fucktard.

to follow-up on this, I went to a shitty public HS (majority from the projects), got a full-scholarship to a private school, and interned at investment banks. Started working at this hedge fund when I graduated four years ago.

Yep, my dad. Hes not a billionaire but a couple million in assets. Started working at 14-15, joined the military, worked through school afterward, learned a language and did business overseas for 20 years. Retiring in a year or two.

based brainlet making everything about politics
nepotism rules the world

turns out everyone on Yea Forums is a millionaire

another thing, how come every rich person calls themselves a "philanthropist"

theyve exploited tons of people to get where they are, thats the opposite of philanthropy

Bitch faggot this aint woof of wallstreet gtfo my Yea Forums with your fantasies

Yes, welfare into Bitcoin so you can scan the govt while you scam the government

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meh, if you say so

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>posts cropped low res image of some watch without ttimestamp
Yeah i said so faggot.

give it up op, you'll never be rich

Tyler Perry

+1 he was literally homeless.

You don't seem to realize this is a good thing. Fuck the rich.

how is it a good thing that theyre lives are much better in quality than any of ours with no real chance for any of us to get to that level?

oops poorfag, here is better quality zz wearing my patek rn if you want a timestamp of that

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Even to be moderately successful you still have to know people in the right places. When I graduated from college, my adviser immediately referred me to someone who would give me a descent research position. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have gotten a job at all.

No, because everyone benefits from the work of society e.g. roads, fire brigades, farmers, basic literacy

Individualism is smooth-brained

u dumb nigger tons of people become millionaires just selling shit online.

I'm not that other asshole but man that is an ugly watch. Congrats on your success though my dude

I may be dumb but I am not a nigger, turbofaggot

Cuban bro

sorry GL

You're arguing the opposite of what I am. I'm saying that if everyone can't be rich then at the very least the rich should be destroyed.

guess we agree then

Yeah, my grandparents.

Hugh Hefner. RIP

>0 evidence
I know the corporate censorship corporations have tried scrubbing it from the internet, but Soros said so himself in an interview, even referred to it as the greatest time of his life. His reasoning for selling out fellow jews to the nazis? Somebody else was going to do it if he didn't, so why not do it and make some dosh.

Dude who came up with hot cheetos

There are a ton of people who are motivated from poorness to become rich, tony robbins to name one( pretty sure he is a billionaire). He talks about seeing his mom OD on heroine at age 5 and using his poorness as motivation to become rich. Also i think there is a stat somewhere on this talking about "first generation millionairs" Which means you became a millionaire without inheriting it, i think the stat is around 80% but not sure

Look's like one of those cheap kid watches from the display at Walmart. Did you take off the racecars or does it come like that

Ben Carson

Yeah, looks like a G-Shock from a distance. It is a watch inspired by racecars and jets, meant to be colorful but to some, an eyesore.

You're absolutely correct. Many have a rags to riches story as part of their public bio but if you look closely none of them come from on-your-own and poor backgrounds. Shit where they say they invested all their money and were living in their car BS when they always had the option of returning to their parents McMansion is not the same as being poor. Investing all your money when your spouse comes from a millionaire family is not the same as being poor. They push this propaganda to hide that fact that socioeconomic stratification in "free capitalist" America is just as solidified as any 16th century monarchy

So we're supposed to accept socialism/communism which will always end with an authoritarian government because they're inherently flawed ideologies?

Hitler rose to power only 3 years later, and Soros would have been 9 by the time the Nazis invaded Poland. What the fuck are you trying to say?

>brainlet
explain how he's a brainlet, Mr. Enlightened Socialist Sage of infinite wisdom.

>I don't think that Warren Buffet came from any special background.

His father was a US Congressman.

Buffet’s father was a congressman and he went to Ivy League schools. More “middle class to mega wealth” than “rags to riches.”

topkek

Eminem

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it is a watch that would easily give away my identity given my background so I would rather not lol

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Doubt it

meh, here u go, a cheaper watch

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Most of these people were born rich & didn’t have to pay for their educations/1st businesses.

I recognize that window frame.

no you don't, you're poor lol

I recognize those arm hairs

>being this insecure

Honestly, I don't care what comes after the capitalists being exterminated. I have zero sympathy for you, just as you have for everyone else. Karma's a fucking bitch.

yeah for some reason I feel the need to prove myself to everyone lol oh well

That just looks like a watch I could get from a store like Kohl’s. Not really seeing anything impressive here from someone who netted 2 million dollars. Is this really what rich people spend money on? Accessories that ultimately originate from the same manufacturer in some third world country?

Who the fuck wears a wrist watch? This is a perfect metaphor for how outdated capitalism is. Not only do do this, but you're proud of it. What a dumbass.

It's a rather pricey Patek (50k+). I posted a Richard Mille (130k) earlier. Will take down both. I think I have bad financial habits ironically. These accessories do not come from a third world country (Switzerland), but they are my facet of consumerism. Ironically, they have networked me with billionaire clients and nourished valuable relationships. Funny what rich people take interests in.

Yeah I can’t imagine why people would feel socialism always eventually leads to the gulag with a post like this...

Outdated? Complex watches are a pinnacle of engineering and design. I encourage you to read about the history of Richard Mille and their innovations.

What kind of loser needs to show off a watch on Yea Forums?

the kind who needs validation 8(

I grew up in government housing due to parents dying and grandparents raising me. I’m white and poor people come in all shapes colors and sizes. Learned a lot about people. A lot. After high school networked my way into real estate industry as a developer. Basically used as a bird dog for potential deals and only made a percentage of something worked. But. Learned the industry, networked with all the big money and politicians. On my way to multi millionaire status. Almost all the very wealthy real estate guys in my city came up very poor. However it was the 70-80’s. They are all crooked as hell.

My grandfather grew up as the son of german immigrants fleeing the nazis during ww2 in NYC. He grew up dirt fucking poor, never went to college. Joined the military, got his life on track, became a very succesful business man after leaving the military, taught himself coding and built up a computer company in the early 80s. Sold that company and went into realestate, and now owns upwards of 20m in assets and around 6m in various savings and stocks.

Had no connections, nothing. Made himself successful by being driven and applying himself.

Love hearing this. Bet he was a wise old timer. You can learn the most from old timers like him.

There are definitely examples. But 99% of the time OP is right. I'm pretty sure there was books written on this very subject and was one of those "oh but we were wrong!" subjects in the 90s and 00's.

The chance at living in a mansion and owning a lambo isn't very likely. But with hard work in America you do have a better chance at a future than you do most other places. There's a lot of reasons for this, some are obvious and some not so obvious. For example the ability to declare bankruptcy. While declaring bankruptcy seems like game over, it's actually suppose to act as a clean slate and the chance to try again. There's TONS of entrepreneurs that have declared bankruptcy and had many failed businesses before actually becoming successful. This is exactly why the US structured bankruptcy in this fashion to give a 2nd chance.

The REAL way this whole American Fantasy happens is actually over generations and not over a single lifetime. You don't have a thug on the street turn into a mogul in a few years. That's rare, like getting struck by lightning. No, that thug gets off the streets. Gets his GED and gets a steady job. He then forces his kid to finish school and get a business degree and his kid becomes a general manager of a large retail location. He can afford to send his kid to an Ivy league school (although maybe with loans) and they can become a doctor or dentist. This guy makes bank and can pretty much spring for whatever extra things that would give his kid a leg up. This kids is able to obtain access to resources many won't have until college and is already networking in elementary school. This is the kid that can actually take risks.

Read think and grow rich
Napoleon Hill
Made more millionaires than any book in history.
Your welcome

For as long as i can remember hes been overwhelmingly humble and extremely wise. Even though he could afford really any car he wants, and could live in a crazy house, he drives a hyundai elantra and lives in a normal house, maybe 800k in total for the house.
He has never splurged on anything, which is partly why hes so rich now. Always lives way below his means

Saudi skin-tone....you were born rich faggot.

Ask him has he read
Think and grow rich?
Post tomorrow 10pm eastern

you caught me LOL

Andrew Carnegie

Good. We need some fucking gulags.

Alexander McQueen was a fashion designer from London who made it big.

Hong Xiuquan

Dude started one of the most deadly conflicts in history coming from a farming family.

J K Rowling was living in her car with her daughter while trying to get the 1st Harry Potter book published. She was middle class, but her divorce caused her to lose her home & her teaching job. She now has enough money to buy any of the biggest transportation companies or the biggest luxury apartament buildings in Europe & have billions left over.

Herbert Hoover? thats a while ago tho so probably not reliable

"Just Kidding" Rowling is a smelly transphobe.

Yah, I worked as a camp councilor for like 3 three years, had a few extra hundred dollars, figured I would "invest" in Bitcoin (2011). Got a few hundred of them and never sold.

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Look up The Man with the Golden Voice.

He was a homeless faggot who got discovered that his voice is worth millions on radio.

nobody cares about your cause, one way or another.

most of my family grew dirt poor in northern ireland at the same time it was legal to have ''no irish or catholic'' in a job advert. I'd say a good chunk of them are doing very well.