Have you ever met a rich person?

[crazyy_men]

Were you disappointed when you learned their true personalities?

[OneViewpoint]

I know 4 billionaires.

3 of them are brothers. I was the CFO of a heavy industrial startup I helped them build from the ground up. And when I say ground up, we were slogging around through mud in jeans and boots for the first 12 months during the construction phase. They are the most principled people I have ever worked with. And socially, they are absolutely "old world" in their manners and the way they treat other people. Very formal, very respectful. I've never seen them lose their temper. But I have seen them take on a huge amount of raw material inventory when we started up and couldn't run consistently for a few months. We took on millions in inventory we couldn't use. We rented offsite warehousing because we ran out of space in a million square foot facility. Why? because they had told a supplier we would take X thousand tons of raw material and they refused to break that promise. Even when it cost them millions.

They also happen to be the real deal. Entrepreneur isn't just a label they gave themselves. In fact they refuse to give themselves any title. They did that to me too. And no business cards. In their words, you will be known by what you do, not a title. Well OK, I can work with that.

The billionaire 4th is Texas oil money. 4th or 5th generation oil money. And every bit the entitled, borderline dysfunctional personality you'd expect from a multi generational trust fund baby. I've seen him behave like a child. He has 2 kids. His son is a raging dumpster fire of failure. His daughter is smart, hard working, and really nice to work with.

And then there are many many people I deal with or have worked with in the New York City financial services world of Investment Banking, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity. All millionaires. It's like living in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Only with cocaine, anti depressants, alcohol, and guys fucking their secretaries while their wives are fucking the pool boy and their tennis instructor while the kids are packed off to boarding schools and summer camp 12 months a year.

It has been an education.

[Drumlin2001]

Define rich?
There was one family in South America. Multiple properties around the capital and on the coast, all paid for by the dad (he was a doctor who owned private practice). I didn't feel like we got along. I felt he was judging me. We had very different lives

[Anonymous]

I would say no but when I was young 6th grade I realized being a gold digger was bad
This boy pulled out 50s and 100 bills in class and his dad picked him up in a red sports car I think it was a mustang. After school he would buy me snacks. Then he asked if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I said yes. We sat next to each other in front of the science teacher and the whiteboard. The boy wouldn't stop rubbing my legs and going up my skirt to my crotch, after a few days of telling him stop
I broke up with him and asked the teacher to change my seat.
I sat next to the misunderstood quiet boy who everyone was afraid to fight because he had anger problems.

[jennifer_bloom]

I do not know my boyfriend’s net worth but I know he is rich because of his house when I met him 18 years age. Also because of how many women were chasing after him.

[ohsheeT]

Billionaire
Nope down to earth
Good person

[jamesgoldman]

Define rich because I've not met a billionaire but have plenty of millionaires in my address book

[Hellraiser1984]

I've met many they're usually pissed off and treat everyone like crap

[DishLady]

Yeah a few.