FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE RETIRE EARLY LIFESTYLE BLOG
Back in the
day when I was getting started as a multiple small business owner, and prior to
becoming one, I used to study successful people.
I would read
their autobiographies, and biographies, and anything I could get my hands on,
that was written about them.
I’ve already
listed some of these people in previous posts.
Here’s
another one. Sir James Goldsmith.
Now, before
I got on, please understand that I do not worship these characters.
Meaning, I
use the principle of “test all things and hold on to that which is good”.
So I sift
what I learn with an eye for what I can compartmentalize and cherry pick what I
can use to possibly implement in my life now,
or maybe a principle I can store
in my mental war chest for possible later use.
So, in a
nutshell, Sir James Goldsmith spent his life buying and selling companies,
became a billionaire before the age of 50, then in the late 80’s retired to his mansion in Mexico.
There’s more
to that story, but here’s a morsel for the F.I.R.E community. Financial Independence Retire Early.
After he ‘retired’
to his mansion in Mexico in 87’, as a billionaire, as huge as that is today, it was even more
huge back in the 80’s.
Get this, he
was still buying companies through proxy.
Wala’, he was working from home.
Wala’, he was working from home.
Will you get
a load of them apples.
He figured
out a way to work from home even before the internet.
Before you tube, facebook, net meeting if you
still remember that one, and now Zoom.
The guy had
a lot of skeletons in his closet but remember, “test all things, and hold on to
that which is good”.
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