Quote from SiSePuede!:
You really think everyone you've ever met has mis-represented themselves? That's a little strange and sad, either that you think that or that you've never in your life met a genuine honest individual. Most people who do mis-represent do not preach how honest they're being and tim is being even more deceptive by saying how he's bringing honesty to the table while using data that doesn't represent himself accurately and he knows it. That's pitiful.
OK SisP, you got me there, maybe oh 70%-80% of all the people I've met have misrepresented themselves
(and yes I think it is sad also, and very, very true) ... and actually most people who misrepresent themselves DO preach about how honest they are being
(I'm very serious on that one), and yes, I most definitely don't give my trust easily now.
When you say "gets it" are you trying to say that I don't understand that taking initiative and making money? Tim is grasping at straws and because he had a spat of good luck and sells his story using that spat of good and purposefully leaves out that he's lost much of that money and never really made much more than the numbers he uses. That money was all pre-tax and since we don't know post-tax numbers we can assume a ~30% tax rate putting his whopping fortune at $1.1M maybe.
When I say "gets it" I mean he gets that the game is about
making money, period, man,
period! As far as the figures you quoted are concerned,
like I said if he netted anywhere NEAR $USD1MM you've just punctured your argument about him "mis-representing himself". The fact is
he made that money, and I honestly don't know what YOUR criteria is for wealth and affluence, but if I come across a brother with a million bucks net, that man will be doing very, very, very, very well in this world ... in all aspects of his life.
I just don't get why you would support someone who totally mis-represents himself, couldn't continue to make money consistently, comes across as an arrogant asshole, and then in a desperation attempt comes on a forum like this trying to hype a book under the premise that he's doing good when really he's only attempting to find a way to channel his 15 minutes of fame into money. To me, that's absurdly deceitful.
I work with a lot of people who come across as much more arrogant and mucho mucho bigger assholes than this guy (and I don't even KNOW HIM) with absolutely NONE of his accomplishments ... 15 minutes of fame you say? - this is America, the land of
media & hype, so that is perfectly natural, and actually I
applaud him for it, he's sounding more and more like a man who understands the meaning of
Carpe Diem .
If he came out and said how shitty he did and that he can't make money any more and that he was writing a memoir about making money and then losing it, okay. But he is not being honest about his own record while proclaiming honesty and I find that pretty stupid.
LOL, we all know the financial industry is just filled with people who are absolutely honest and value that trait above all other things, you're coming across as being kinda naive here man.
Good luck.
Sincere good luck to you too bro, but I gotta tell ya, you ain't mak'in him look too bad here.
Jimmy Jam
P.S. Here is how the phrase
carpe diem is used in a sentence for those who want to best understand it:
"... aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"
it means
"... is running away from us. Gather the day, for in the future you can believe the minimum",
sounds like a perfect example of what he's doing here.
