Member Since: 12 Mar 2010
Location: Essex
Posts: 1739
Hard work pays off
Just having a drink and a chat with a bloke over a pint in my local last night. I discovered he was worth around £4 million and he told me the amazing story of how he got so rich.
Basically when he left school he had little or no formal qualifications but he was good with his hands and he knew how to sell. He knew he was never going to make it in an office job so it was nose to the grindstone time.
He left school at 15 and bought an old series Land Rover and spent a few weeks fixing it up, he then sold it for profit. He then used the money to buy another and so on. He did this a lot over the next 35 years, buying, repairing, selling, buying again.
He eventually moved onto Defenders in the 90's and then onto Range Rovers in the last eight or nine years. Even during the real bad times he plugged away.He worked long hours as you do in the Land Rover trade, sometimes not seeing his wife and kids for days in pursuit of his goal.
Then his uncle died and left him £4 million.
A real heartwarming story.Today is the oldest you've been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
8th Feb 2019 11:38 am
DaveC
Member Since: 29 Sep 2009
Location: Wirral
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8th Feb 2019 11:40 am
Canburne
Member Since: 15 Jan 2013
Location: Devon
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"the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings....the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries" Winston Churchill
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8th Feb 2019 11:44 am
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Location: Off again! :-)
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8th Feb 2019 11:54 am
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Member Since: 23 Aug 2011
Location: sunny Doncaster
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8th Feb 2019 11:55 am
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8231
Been there, done that, all but the last sentence It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
8th Feb 2019 12:02 pm
ianm27
Member Since: 02 Jun 2016
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 2154
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8th Feb 2019 1:27 pm
Discomadness
Member Since: 19 Jan 2015
Location: Caerphilly
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I actually thought.... wish one of my relatives had a few million. Lol.Jarrod
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