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    #122
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,905 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Drumpot wrote: »
    If I’m on my deathbed and have no regrets and can look back fondly at where I spent my most valuable commodity (time) I will consider my life a success.

    I think what people imagine success is changes over the course of their lives. I think a person content with what they have and who is in their life is a successful person.

    This is spot on. I see so many people chasing a career - but they are putting outrageous hours and commitment into their job. Your talking 10 hour days + , bringing work home at weekends.

    They basically have the car, the nanny , two / three great holidays a year. But - I don't think they have real friends or know their kids.

    My objective in life has been to earn the most money possible in the least hours.

    I get the job satisfaction thing etc - but not at a 60/70 hour week cost during the most healthy part of your life 20 to mid 40s.


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    #123
    ILoveYourVibes
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    I don't really care if people spend money ....humbleness comes from within and how you treat people...its how you see yourself and your place in the world.


    I don't see someone who is a failure as a character but has money as being successful.

    They don't impress me.


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    #124
    topper75
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    But lets cut the nonsense, she qualified and excelled as a jurist due to her own hard work. Good luck to her in her demanding new job.

    Legal folk - it appears to pain them to use a plain word where a fancier one is to hand. :pac:


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    #125
    Hamsterchops
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    Richard Branson.

    Failed miserably at school, yet became very successful as he rose to the top...


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    #126
    frozenfrozen
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    Airyfairy12 wrote: »
    I can give a list..
    Any area in Art and Design.
    Solicitors/Barristers
    Makeup artistry
    Any area of television/film. I have a friend who is now living in Australia working for ABC news but couldnt get any small job with TG4 or ITV. Her sister works in Australia for ABC and helped her get a job, she is now really successful in her role.
    Teaching
    Acting/Singing/Modelling/any entertainment work.
    Journalism/Writing
    Many sports careers
    I could literally go on all day.

    Did your friend have fluent Irish?


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    #127
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Richard Branson.

    Failed miserably at school, yet rose to the top...

    He does get trotted out a bit - one of a handful of those that are an exception rather than the rule.


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    #128
    Irishder
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    Anybody can be successful, its just up to the individual to define success and work to that goal


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    #129
    threeball
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Making a video of herself licking Ray Js lolly made Kim K and her sisters multi millionaires.

    Now that is a success story.

    She didn't even do a good job of it which would fall in line with most successful people, plenty of neck but no qualities to back it up.


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    #130
    Chicoso
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    He does get trotted out a bit - one of a handful of those that are an exception rather than the rule.

    I thought successful people are a mix

    Some bright some not


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    #131
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 9,282 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Deleted User wrote: »
    He does get trotted out a bit - one of a handful of those that are an exception rather than the rule.



    you sure? A lot of rich/successful people were very bad in school, I used to work with a guy who couldn't sign his own name, he was a millionaire building contractor.


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    #132
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    Chicoso wrote: »
    I thought successful people are a mix

    Some bright some not

    What not bright person was a success in your opinion?


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    #133
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    you sure? A lot of rich/successful people were very bad in school, I used to work with a guy who couldn't sign his own name, he was a millionaire building contractor.

    Depends on your definition of 'a lot'? Were most successful people poor at school or a relatively small amount.


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    #134
    mariaalice
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    you sure? A lot of rich/successful people were very bad in school, I used to work with a guy who couldn't sign his own name, he was a millionaire building contractor.

    Hard work though, there are other successes than academic ones plus, there is a lot of luck and timing with being successful in areas other that academic ones.

    For all the sucessull developers you here about ther are loads that nearly lost their shirt.


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    #135
    Sleepy
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    There's a few obvious factors that have already been mentioned in this thread beyond the "hard work, determination and luck" that most successful people would cite as the keys to their success. The main ones imo are:
    • Coming from a background that gives you the "freedom to fail": a supportive family with the means to support you if necessary.
    • Social capital: whether acquired via family or through a private education, connections to powerful people help one succeed.
    • Timing: being in the right place at the right time to take advantage of a business opportunity is the classic example of this but simply being born at the right time to ensure you have the chance at an education, good employment prospects on graduation, to avoid being drafted into a war you won't come home from etc. count too.
    • Being attractive - study after study has shown that objectively attractive people earn more and progress further in their careers.

    Finally, one that hasn't been mentioned but that I've noticed to be a common factor among any of the self-made successes I've met is having good social skills. Successful people tend to be good company. They might stab you in the back down the line but their personable nature will draw you into wanting to do business with them in the first place. People like to do business with people they like.


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