Comments on: On greed and speed

By: Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:23:37 +0000

It is easy to make $50 per hour. It’s not quite so easy to make it consistently, but it is easy to make! Years ago, I was a personal trainer. I had to fight to keep my poker face as clients pulled out their checkbooks and wrote out $1,000 checks for the pleasure of spending time with me. But, there it was!

By: haider mehdi

haider mehdi — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:39:07 +0000

Ramit,

I just saw your 5 minute video with PF and at 52 was very impressed at the earnestness and transparency fo your effort….i’m learning things about personal financial planning that i wish i had know at 22…so great stuff and wish you well…

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:32:44 +0000

This is why I love your site, Ramit. I don’t know how I missed this article before, but it’s great!

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:57:01 +0000

To tell you the truth I think cheaters always win and honest people are usually desperate, especially if they are retired or almost retired. They firgure they don’t have the time to spend on building value, only to be let down again, so they go to the cheaters, believing that this one sounds sincere. How can you build value, when the time is so short?

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:44:15 +0000

Lots of people make valuable sites and make money, I have made a valuable web service that made no money. When I started doing projects specifically designed to earn and not to help people, I started making tons of money. For instance, sure lots of blogs make Lots of people make valuable sites and make money, I have made a valuable web service that made no money. When I started doing projects specifically designed to earn and not to help people, I started making tons of money. For instance, sure lots of blogs make <$5 a day. What if you make 5 blogs a day that make $3 a day… Its not that hard and it works. There are alot of ways to make money online without adding value, and for some people if you really need to get out of your job or work for yourself, you gotta spam first then make your masterpiece..

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:59:00 +0000

“Relatively easy to make $50 an hour?” Pfft I say, pfft. Maybe I just have too many “barriers”, but I fail to see myself making $50 an hour “relatively” easily any time soon. Damn reality.

By: Mitza

Mitza — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:50:11 +0000

Let’s tell you my story.

Surfing the internet, i’ve get in touch with blogging “virus”.I decided to start one, and make money, after reading some succes storyes about blogging, and i made something quickly, and added Adsense.Money dosen’t comed and I get depressed.With time i started to understand that quality can bring you money & succes.

I loved this article, i keep in mind this words : “Think more about value.”

Thank you !

P.S – Sorry if i have some english mistakes.

By: Henry D.

Henry D. — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:27:46 +0000

I agree, but what if you focus for a short time on making your money work for you? Then once you have a steady stream of passive income, you can do whatever you want, even worthwhile things that continually cost money, and still not have to worry about your financial security.

By: Paul Rivers

Paul Rivers — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:00:33 +0000

Rather than the paragraph about being passionate, I think the point of this entry was “Think about value creation. Not money. That will come.”

No statement about making money is ever completely and totally true, but he’s trying to get a theme across.

By: Matt Drought

Matt Drought — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:30:13 +0000

Agreed (without the greed). Half baked, selfish ideas seem to be cropping up all the time. The other day I got a call from a woman who offered me a “rare” spot in a special movie just for HR decision makers. The first question I asked was about the cost, because I could sense about 300 holes in what seemed a very stupid product offering. “It’s just £12,000″, she gushed. I shudder to think of the poor businesses that sign up to such schemes.