I'm sure this is very nice reading & inspiration for anyone with goals...
So I'm bumping the thread a bit :)

I'm not there yet but my mind is so set it's a pain sometimes.. No retreat, no surrender :Graucho
Here are some things I think are good to keep in mind, whether rich or wannabe:

* Money itself isn't the key to happiness, it's what it's used for that does/doesn't. Make wise decisions.
* Don't stop thinking about the costs of things just because You can afford whatever You want...
* If You begin thinking doing heavy drugs is the shit, start finding out what You REALLY like instead... drugs = void-fillers... :2 cents:
* Bored? Do creative/productive things with Your money... Not for the money as much as for the challenges & goals.


Now, can we have some more "tales from the money vaults" please? :glugglug
Cheers!

Hear Hear!! :glugglug

When I was 12 :thumbsup :1orglaugh

i may of hit a million before (if we're talking peso's) but $$'s it's still well beyond me, this read was a good read, and i hope eventually i'll hit that level, but for now i'd be happy w/ enough to be stable and a bit to pour back into the many projects gathering dust on my todo list due to lack of time / funds.

And as far as money not buying happiness, everyone is right, it can't, but it can sure buy alot of things to help you keep your mind off the fact that your unhappy :thumbsup

First million when I was 21.

Money has not given me happiness, money has given me the freedom to explore it.

Rather than get bogged down by the everyday crap of just making it to the next paycheck I have been given the unique perspective to see people and life from both sides. Having more money than you know what to do with will give you more insight into life, friends and the world than you could ever imagine.

Only people who have truly indulged in wealth will ever know what I am talking about.

You can argue and ramble about money and it's effects until you are blue in the face. But like most things in life you have to experience them to understand it.

-Tony

this is pretty much the gist of what i wanted to say, just put better :)

i think there needs to be a support group for young millionaires

what about us aspiring entrepreneurs :(


*feels left out*

The same story happened to me. But I was offered $200K and I was 14...

I regret not taking the money...

:(

I am so there.... or is this a bad thing?

:winkwink:

I was just adding it up for taxes. I have taken 12 trips this year and 10 were out of the country. I just need to work on the girlfriend part of it. I found a great girl and fell for her. So now i have to buy two tickets instead of one.

Wow, some people had been making money on the web when they were 13 or 14...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by davidd
awesome. it takes a hell of a lot to inspire me, but you do. after reading this, i want to simply hop on a plane and start my own adventure.

living with no anchors: i completely agree. i try to simplify and avoid long term commitments and hassles as much as possible. simplicity over all else.

regarding the sports car weakness - i suppose it really isn't, but many people regard it as such. the 350Z is a great car. i'm currently driving a C4S 911, thinking seriously about the Gallardo.

regarding University/education: this was always something i enjoyed, and never did it for any monetary gain. what ended up getting in the way of education was making money, as ridiculous as it might sound.

companionship: i understand where you're coming from, and what you're saying. it's the 'high maintenance' factor, along with never having the same person with you, that i'm not all that keen on. perhaps i'm just wired slightly differently than you in that respect.

what i'd really like is to simply find the right girl to travel the entire world with. oh, and i look forward to your book :)

i believe i more or less understand your use of the word (girlfriend). as far as the cash, i still figured you were burning much, much more than 10K a month. not bad at all. please post or email me pics David.

again, your thoughts, written down, always inspire me. right now (this minute) i feel like shutting things down, buying a plane ticket and flying away. it's tough walking away from it all though. it's going to happen, i just don't know exactly when.

i'm not at million mark yet, but I got more then enough and understand what you saying... sometimes it's funny and weird to watch people from different perspective, it's like a totally different side of you opens up..

What an awesome thread. This is what it's all about.

I was 13 at the time... may I ask what site your was? Mine was Spincities.com... a lot of you may remember it as a free homepage service back in 99/00.

I'm planning to re develop it in the not to distant future :)

you owned that? cool! I remember it

hehe yep, you'd be surprised how often I get that response whenever I tell somebody about it, lol...

I was still in elementry school when I came out with that site and every day kids would come up to me and say stuff like "my mom said her whole office was talking about your website" lol... along with the obvious questions like "how much money do you make" lol. Other teachers would come to my classroom and pull me out of class all the time to get me to show them around the site and talk to me about it... good times :glugglug

not there yet and not sure i really want to be

22.I exchanged $1000US for more then $1Mil in italian money

100 million...

:(

why the long face spunky?

i really dont know

Its weird, as inspired you are by reading davidd, I feel a big lack.

What you say about women, and how you are never with the same girl, just feel wrong. This is the materialistic vision you could expect from a rich guy. I mean, I could never be happier than when I am with the love of my life. This person makes everyday worth the effort, and with all the gold, without this person I would feel desperate. Its like finally finding that person you desired, your true half.

Enjoying yourself, travelling, its all things that I do. Maybe not in places as expensive as yours, but I agree, I would do the same if I was a millionnair.

I have many girlfriends who are strippers. They are great girls, but it is clear for them that they are doing this for CASH. They love men and dressing up, but the reason why they do it is to get the money. And they go see guys to get more of it. When they come to see you, thats what they come for. They are perfect for you, because they follow your lifestyle of leisure and luxury, and they expect to be thrown away after consomation. Thats kinda sad. You are used to easy things, and easy girls is natural. Everything has to be fast.

I truly whish you find the *real* girl.

Then again, I dont know you and may be judging you in a wrong way.

Do it, there is internet everywhere.


I used to poke fun at people who rented and leased everything. I understand the mindset of people with money doing it, not the mindset of people with no money trying to live richly. I was joking a couple months ago with a friend and said, "Dude, when I want to leave here I just will make a phone call to the leasing people and say 'Yeah, come and pick up the furniture, car, and I will leave the keys to the house on the counter'"

Fine vehicles. I loved my 911, and would buy another one when I settle down in one place for more than 6 months. Although I was pondering a road trip around the South West for the spring... That would be fun. Meet some cool people and have some alone time.

The person to travel with is my goal. That is why I target the Euros that are on the 'stripper circuit'. They are already on the road, and it is the mindset I love. Currently I visit them back in their home lands, and go around Europe with them. I would never go to another country again, without knowing someone there. You can only research an itinerary so much, but locals know it all.

In the end the question you have to ask is, can you tolerate another person for 24 hours a day? I can't and I know it. I hate being the entertainer, as most people are clinging and need another person to do everything for them. I have enough worrries of my own let alone having to worry if the other person 'is having fun'. So if you can set youself up with something similar to what I have, it is easier. You land, hang out with friends for a few days to a week, move on to another country.

I have the good fortune of knowing the right people. I have a good friend who works for Intercontinental Hotels. So in Europe I stay at the Crowne Plaza, Intercontinetals, and Holiday Inns (European ones are much different than USA), at very attractive rates (Less than $100 a night). Last time I was in Prague I had a 600 Euro a night suite for $100 a night. So with unfettered spending on dining, entertainment, hotels, and airfare it is about $10K give or take. Flights out of the USA are the only option for me. I find the rest of the world gets raped on their airfare.


Glad to hear it. As I said in a previous post, I just wish someone had sat me down and told me this shit a long time ago. I would have listened.

-dd

I am not a slut :) Do not interpret my comments as "Yeah, I am laying pipe on every continent with anything 2 legs and smells like a woman".

I am an observer of the human condition. My whole life has been reading people and my surroundings, and navigating the terrain based upon these interpretations.

I will send you a copy of the book, when it is done. You will see the enigma inside of the riddle that has been named DavidD.

-dd

Is it weird if I find it arousing?? :(

in the year 2040 maybe.

Can a girl get some traffic here?!?!

Don't you get sick of the travel? Not having your "own" space. I do not buy lots of things for the reasons you mentioned. They tend to own me versus me woning them but I do like having a home to rejuvenate in.

Shit this makes me want to ditch the girlfriend and do a Kerouac

Travel - I try to spend atleast 10 days in each place. I am in Florida for 2 weeks, the Caribbean for 2 weeks, Europe for 10 days, repeat. The day in transit, sucks, and I always say, "This is the last time". Then at the end of the 2 weeks, I say, "It has been another lovely 2 weeks, time to visit the other life."

That is the thesis behind my book, can a person maintain multiple lives? I have found the answer to be yes. I have a life in Florida, a life in the Caribbean, and a life in Europe. All of them flowing at the same time, with no or little connection to each other.

Shit - What some people call possessions. They weigh you down. I am by no means a gypsy. I have a home base, Florida, in which I own everything. So there is an anchor, that I can come down back to at all times, and I have found no other place on this planet like where I live in Florida. I just was never fooled into the consumption based principles of, "Buy this, it will make you feel good" or "Buy this you really need it". I am always amazed at home many people have George Foreman grills :)

i think i'm almost ready to leave. shoot me another email quiet at ultra-sites.com

cheers

David I want a copy of that book, lol.
It will be more of a handbook for those with money though, and just a fantasy for most of us.

But I do know a guy that is from the Ukraine and although he doesn't have much money, he manages to travel on average once two to three months. He usually goes to Europe. He's told me stories about what it was like to live there. All the countries are attached so it's easy to visit Germany and then France and then the Netherlands so on.

He has his base here in North America. He's in his late 40's early 50's and married. He has no kids. When he travels he usually goes alone, but sometimes they spend time away together. I've never known anybody like him before. Their marriage is perfect. When he travels alone, he lives a bit of the lifestyle you've described here with women and clubs and fun.

I envy him in that respect. He's seen places most won't because most people never travel and somehow (I don't know how) don't feel the need to go beyond the city, state, or country they're from. I'm still debating whether that's the life for me. But I know for him it's perfect.

A old comedian once said, he spent 80% of his life on women and booze. He said he wasted the other 20% of his life. LOL. Now that's a simplistic and coarse way to describe your lifestyle. Clearly there is much more to it than that as you've pointed out in your posts in this thread.

Anyway, cheers to you for doing what you love and for being able to find what that is. It seems many people never do find what makes them happy. Keeping things simple and always novel is definitely attractive.

Davidd, I wish I read your posts 4 years ago.

I would've crossed that financial mark sooner if I hadn't kept re-investing the money into domain names. Every time I closed a deal, I poured the money back into more domains. I did it again this month. Bought a domain (melon.com) for low-5 (early 2004) and flipped for 6figs two weeks ago, then plowed the money right back into more domains. LOL, against the advice of family & friends, but the domain industry has been lucrative for me... and obviously benefited my family & friends.

But after reading this thread I wish I could go back in time... too many "anchors" now.

Too many possessions that have ended up owning me. Not materialistic things, almost all business-related. I built a huge workstation (command center) with 6+ TV's (all tuned to news/markets), 10+ PCs, two 42" monitors, 10 mobile phone lines, etc... thought I needed it all to maintain and grow my empire and stay connected with the world. But now, looking back, perhaps a laptop + worldphone + travelling the world may have sufficed. I started to realize I don't need it all after I bought a new house, had to "deconstruct" the command center and still waiting to put it back together... because my laptop is all I need right now. LOL. But davidd's lifestyle may be more fitting for my mindset than my current one. I drive a simple domestic car, though I long for something more. Every time I decide to buy a supercar, I think about how many domains I could buy or friends/family I could help... and end up doing that instead (unless they start selling the ZONDA in the US). But this thread has provided excellent insight. I've always felt like something was missing. I love what I do for a living, but the business I own doesn't need to own me. Time to get rid of a few anchors.

but I'm sure the domain game will pull me back in. there's always something new to look forward to:
i.e.
Yesterday, a domain portfolio sold for $164,000,000 ($155M cash)
http://board.gofuckyourself.com/show...adid=393035&s=

but I still wish I read this thread 4 years ago...

davidd, when you're finished with your book, I'll buy a copy. You should call it "Life Without Anchors". Hurry up and finish writing it. :)

(back to the domain mines..)

Best thread ever.

Some really interesting philosophies and life experiences in this thread.

Davidd I will tell my fiance to pick you up a nice warm old navy pullover next time I give her some spending money! LOL!

Different strokes for different folks :winkwink:

DH

Awsome thread.

I feel like a millionare! :1orglaugh

I am happy :)
oh oh

and I love myself...

oh oh

and I have a small penis.

KRL has the best post in this thread...

when did you reach your first million?



when I turn 34 years old. I'm 31 now



Lar's made $60,000 yesterday.


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