The best way to get rich is to have a rich father.
I started my businesses with $800 26 years ago, everything I got I made, and I used to look down on rich kids in fancy cars. A friend of mine gave his son a new BMW on his 16th birthday, the kid was angry and did not talk to his dad for months, because he wanted a Porsche. The father relented 6 months later and bought the son a new Porsche 928S4. I was so angry about that, even though it wasn't my business.
I came from an average family with old fashion parents who did not give me allowance, as a teenager I had to count my dollars and cents on a date, hoping she does not order anything slightly expensive on the menu or 2 sodas. Now I worked my way up, I do not want to do the same. You are only young once, there is no reason why my sons should go through the same; my parents were good intentioned, but it was humiliating and painful to be a poor teenager with no money for a humberger or movie. I vowed not to do that to my own children. There are rules, right and wrong, black and white, strict manner and education, but they do not have to wait or work for the new X-Box, PS2, new games, PCs, skateboards, BB/airsoft guns, Japan or Europe. 2 years later if now-14-yrs-old boy wants my H2, that is not out of the question, if we think he can overall handle it.
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