Shaquille O'Neal: "I was a daytrader"

[AAAintheBeltway]

Quote from marketsurfer:

Famous and/or wealthy people are exactly like everyone else, in fact, I would argue that most are nicer and easier to talk to than the average joe sixpack. Here is a shot of your typical billionaire in 2011--- doesn't look much like a rock a fella or Vanderbilt now does it?

Except that's his own airplane. They don't let you smoke stogies even in first class anymore.

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Except that's his own airplane. They don't let you smoke

That is not a private jet, and he is not smoking. Other than that, you are right...

 

[macho grande]

Quote from marketsurfer:

Famous and/or wealthy people are exactly like everyone else, in fact, I would argue that most are nicer and easier to talk to than the average joe sixpack.

That's a facade most billionaires have a narcissistic personality disorder i would imagine. Their charm and charisma is part and parcel of their psychopathy.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-pe07.html

 

[ArbitRAGE]

Quote from Baron:



I find that all celebrities are approachable and pretty cool as long as you follow one simple rule: Never ask them questions about what they do for a living. They get questions like that all the time from the media, so the last thing they want to do is go through the same routine with some guy at a bar. However, if you ask them off the wall questions, even if they are really personal like, "Hey, where do you get your tatoos done at?", that's usually all it takes to get them to open up about themselves in ways you never thought possible.

Thanks for the awesome advice, Baron. I've actually been told to do the same thing when 'networking' with hedge fund managers, prop traders and other individuals in the industry.

 

[marketsurfer]

Shaq sings a lullaby to my friend MC---


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[marketsurfer]

Quote from macho grande:

That's a facade most billionaires have a narcissistic personality disorder i would imagine. Their charm and charisma is part and parcel of their psychopathy.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-pe07.html

most narcissicists are not billionaires or ultra wealthy by any stretch....

 

[Mercor]

In almost every case you can't become wealthy without providing many people with something that makes their life better. Wealth creation makes lives better.

 

[denner]

Quote from marketsurfer:

most narcissicists are not billionaires or ultra wealthy by any stretch....

Indeed, you are living proof of that.

 

[olias]

O'Neal and his business partner denied involvement in the 2008 attack on a man who said he had a sex tape of the former Laker. The victim told authorities that he believed O'Neal was behind the attack.

June 16, 2011
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 2009 investigated allegations that Shaquille O'Neal was connected to a beating, robbery and kidnapping by gang members of a man claiming to have a sex tape of the basketball star, according to records reviewed by The Times.

Detectives found phone records showing a "flurry of calls" between the alleged ringleader of the assault and O'Neal's business partner around the time of the February 2008 incident, a sheriff's investigative report said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shaq-investigation-20110616,0,1285573.story?track=rss

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from Mercor:

In almost every case you can't become wealthy without providing many people with something that makes their life better. Wealth creation makes lives better.

Very true in everything but trading

In trading you "take" money from others -- although it's voluntary.