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description: "What are the characteristics of people who make a fortune?1. Silence leads to great wealth.2. People who truly make a fortune must rely on side income (windfalls), so it's hard to get rich from regular income, because regular income is your hard-earned money, your labor income, specifically your salary, your normal income, etc. To make a fortune, it must be side income. Wealth is a reward for your knowledge and insight, not compensation for your diligence.3. Employees cannot make a fortune, and their development space is limited.4. A business must be either small and refined, or low-priced and widespread; the ceiling determines its size.5. People who want to solve problems without spending money will remain at the bottom of society for a lifetime.6. Never let anyone around you know what you rely on to make money, or how much money you've made.7. For an ordinary person's life, just focus on one thing: when the price of gold falls, the economy prospers, invest and start a business; when the price of gold rises, the economy deteriorates, invest cautiously.8. In the planning stage of things, you must be with people who are not short of money, because how to do what you want to do. If you are with people who are short of money, you will be constrained by money and act cautiously. In the specific work stage, we must be with people who don't have much money. Because the direction and plan have been set, working with people who have no money, they are very energetic, because having no money makes them careful about waste. Pay attention to this order, don't get it wrong.9. It is difficult for a person to get rich in a poor land; only big cities are good places for them to achieve their goals. Because when wealth circulation is low, the wealth a person can obtain from it is also very little.10. The more you borrow from the bank, the safer it is.11. 90% of rich people's first pot of gold is not honorable, they just avoid talking about it.12. Befriend the local power brokers, this is a "smart" person.13. Wealth lies in strategy, not in physical labor; profit lies in the situation, not in hard farming.14. Under dense forests, there are no lush grasses; between large clods of earth, there are no beautiful seedlings.15. Those who give up halfway achieve nothing; those who are lazy in farming gain nothing.16. Ordinary people who want to break out of their predicament must jump out of bottom-level thinking, so you must learn to look up and see the road, not just keep your head down and work."
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# What are the characteristics of people who make a …