Are you a millionaire...

[GrumpyGregry]

I have worked for 2 lots of multi millionaires, and they may or may have not been typical.....

Neither of them were happy. Paranoid, touchy, jealous, petty, power crazed and quite weak. They owned multiple properties throughout the world and plenty of nice cars, country estates etc. There was ALWAYS something going wrong. The more you have, the more chance for it to break I suppose. It made me appreciate my fairly average existance.

They both ran shoots and would invite friends. You think MAMILs with blingy bikes are tossers....?

The two wealthiest people I know, both multimillionaires and then some, are the two happiest/content men I've ever met.

I know dozens on the PAYE who are paranoid, touchy, jealous, petty, power crazed and quite weak.

People are people.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

50p I am a Chartered Surveyor.

And is that a professional valuation?

If so the RICS will want a word...

 

[Moon bunny]

If you add my lottery winnings to what Hover brought back from France, just and so. But a million is not what it used to be, buy a decent sized house and the car and bike you wanted, then realise it is work again on Monday, half a million will not last the rest of your life. What it has meant is that I could do what I wanted to do instead of worrying about promotion, office bullies etc. It is a sobering thought that even if we sold everything we still could not buy some of the private steam boats Hover works on, the owners of some of which are seriously rich, for example half joking Hover asked the owner of own he was working on, "Can I borrow one of your Aston Martins for the weekend?", the reply, "It will have to be be the DB4, the 6 is waiting for a spare part." Sure enough he got the use of a open-top 1963 model for the weekend.

 

[Markymark]

Money doesn't buy you happiness. I'm as happy now that I have £40m as I was when I only had £30m....

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

This time next year Rodders...

 

[gavroche]

In parts of Africa, wealth is measured by the number of goats, cows you possess. I have just one cat so I must be a pauper.

 

[MarkF]

I am 75% away if I cashed everything in, my mother must be, or very near, though. (By GG, rules definitely). Wish I'd not got her cycling I think she will outlive me.....

Money, I've made lots, 3 times, and lost it......... 3 times. At no time did my mental well being alter, I've a good woman and 3 healthy kids, can't really desire much more. I do know that coveting something is much more enjoyable than getting it (IMO).

 

[biggs682]

only in love and kindness

 

[slowmotion]

In parts of Africa, wealth is measured by the number of goats, cows you possess. I have just one cat so I must be a pauper.

With the Sami people in Lapland, wealth is measured by the number of reindeer you own. It is very bad form to ask somebody how many they have....rather like asking how much somebody earns.

 

[oldfatfool]

It is a sobering thought that even if we sold everything we still could not buy some of the private steam boats Hover works on, the owners of some of which are seriously rich.

I remember watching the arch devil himself (JC) on a transport program and he was saying the yacht he was on cost its owner circa £1million per meter to build, it was 50 meters long.

 

[TVC]

I'm worth more dead than I am alive. Not worth a million yet, but on paper I'm doing OK. The concept of a millionaire being someone rich makes no sense anymore. My piddly little £40K mortgage is hardly worth talking about when a quarter of a million debt on a house is not unusual these days.

 

[Markymark]

My wife says I'm one in a million

That's cause she's also told it to another 999,999

 

[slowwww]

A mate of mine retired from the city aged 42 with about £5m of cash, investments and property assets.

He's never worked since, and all he seems to do it sit around and play golf occasionally and his life doesn't appear very fulfilling or to have much purpose. And so on the question of whether I'm jealous?.................course I bl**dy am!!

 

[Dave 123]

The two wealthiest people I know, both multimillionaires and then some, are the two happiest/content men I've ever met.

I know dozens on the PAYE who are paranoid, touchy, jealous, petty, power crazed and quite weak.

People are people.

That's why I said they may not have been typical. It was just my bad luck to have them both as employers!

 

[Over The Hill]

I am no by a long way but working out my assets and what I owe on them was actually quite good while being a bit worrying.