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Describe the most successful person YOU know

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alex=
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I was thinking about who the most successful person I know is, and what defines success. I realized that I do not know anyone that is THAT successful. I know a guy who plays WR at UNC Chapel Hill and was valedictorian, but that's it.

Who is the most successful person you guys personally know? (or know of)
Oct 8 2012 9:11PM
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roor
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My dad old business partner who was the CEO of a major bank. My mom vice president of a fortune 500 company. The people I sail with that own a 30 million dollar house in Newport and just got me a internship at Goldman Sachs
Oct 8 2012 9:17PM
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timmi
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success is really defined by the person. I mean if your gauge of success is wealth, my neighbour owns the disposal infrastructure for central ontario and 2 or 3 major hotels.
Oct 8 2012 9:19PM
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alex=
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Thats what I was thinking... success can be achievement, wealth, or they just are amazing at everything they try and do.
Oct 8 2012 9:21PM
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little1337
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My dads doctor was best friends with ben and jerry. They actually wanted to make bagels but they couldn't afford the bagel maker...
Oct 8 2012 9:22PM
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TZA.
Posts: 1462 - Karma: 181
i bet the people at sachs dont know your ns name is roor and you have a stoned smiley face as your picture
Oct 8 2012 9:22PM
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deleted5
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i know the owner of one of the top law firms in nyc, met him through my friend, they went to the same frat.
Oct 8 2012 9:24PM
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BrewskiJr
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This kid from my university is in the Entrepreneurship Club I'm in and owns his own company (started it three years ago). This summer he went to a handful of investment bankers to get more capital for his company. One group offered him $15million for full rights to his company. The kid declined. The group said "We were hoping you say that. We want you to stick with this company and make it worth hundreds of billions" then proceeded to invest in his company.


/claim.
Oct 8 2012 9:24PM
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Forcillo
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I used to live in southern California. Montecito, to be exact (near Santa Barbara). During my time there, my dad had a co-worker, who worked in the same exact job as him, named John Wilczak. Mine and his families were very similar in terms of finance. My family then moved to Maine, where I currently live. John stayed, respectively, in California. My dad started working in a similar position with a new company. John stayed with the same company he was with, and moved more quickly up the executive ladder. About 5 years after we moved, my family and I re-visited California to remember out old lives a little bit. John was suddenly the CEO of my dad's old employer, living on a ranch in Santa Ynez, possessing a pool, tennis courts, and a Michael Shoemaker Ferrari.

Fuck me, right?
Oct 8 2012 9:26PM
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TZA.
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Probs these guys i went to highschool with both of them and they make stack and just play music pretty cool guys they had a big house party end of august and preformed it was unreal
Oct 8 2012 9:28PM
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TheDude
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Know the CEO of a smallish but very successful medical surgeon partnering buisness whos super rich and we just happen to be really good freinds with their family

the most however goes to this one guy who lives right on lake washington and has a ~45 ft cobalt and a 2009 master craft x-star (lambo of boating), also happen to be really good family freinds, he worked for microsoft when it was beginning and then essentially started his own compay that blew up, and now hes retired and manages lik 5 apartment complexes for disposable inocome basicallu
Oct 8 2012 9:28PM
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deleted5
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#true story
Oct 8 2012 9:29PM
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2_fadez
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my best friends brother started a business at your school two or three years ago..
Oct 8 2012 9:34PM
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lukewalnuts
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uncle...

ran a private owned casket company handed down three generations, always giving back to his hometown
Oct 8 2012 9:35PM
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WalterWhite
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I'd say me but Skylar is kind of an ugly bitch, and everyone knows you aren't truly successful until you have a hot wife.
Oct 8 2012 9:36PM
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Dunnah
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your mom
Oct 8 2012 9:38PM
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Forcillo
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Pretty average first post.
Oct 8 2012 9:39PM
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deepfriedtwinkie
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well i wouldnt say very successful but a pretty cool achievement, my cousin is Billy Walsh from Entourage and plays other pretty badass roles in shows and movies.
Oct 8 2012 9:40PM
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deleted5
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you win /thread
Oct 8 2012 9:45PM
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EricaMN.
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John Chapple, the CEO of Nextel has two houses and a beach cabin down the road from me. He doesn't really speak much of his business life, but he likes to drink a lot

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Oct 8 2012 9:46PM
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scratchproteen
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I'd have to say my dad, worked for the same company since he was 19 (he's just about 49) buys and sells commodities while managing 3 local grain elevators. Built a brand new house in 2001, was a 4.0 through high school and college. Married to an awesome woman for 27 years, 6 figure salary....i can only hope to be where he is at 26 years from now.
Oct 8 2012 9:51PM
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LiquorLanch
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My best friends who have beaten depression. Happiest, nicest girls i know
Oct 8 2012 9:56PM
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alex=
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that actually made me sad. shit
Oct 8 2012 9:59PM
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Anathema
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i have a lot of friends in med school right now, but one stands out the most. this guy i lived with for a few years and good friend during my college days is probably going to be a heart surgeon making serious bank. he's extremely bright, clever, witty, has a beautiful girlfriend, is healthy and athletic, extremely kind and liked by everyone, and volunteers and does all sorts of extra curricular stuff whenever he has spare time. dude just has his life together. you can't outright measure success by what you've accomplished, but when you know exactly how to manage your time and live up to your potential, i'd say you've fucking won.
Oct 8 2012 10:00PM
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JakeAssBeatClap
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My dad, he was in the air force for 23 years made a significant amount of money on investments during that time. Retired at 45. Decided to work for a old friend and colleague of his from the airforce so he wouldnt get bored. Its a small but highly utilized space and misslies operations organization. The company got a contract with Vandenberg Air Force Base to do all civilian work for the west coast ICBM and rocket launches. He is in charge of the entire western range. The eastern Range is Cape Canaveral (shuttle launches and some titans and deltas) western is minute men, interceptors, and ICBMs with a few deltas, titans, and pegasus'. He makes six figures on top of Colonel retirement and all the money from his investments. He came from an air force family as well and my gramps (my dad's dad) came from an NYPD officer. We didn't come from money.

Not to mention my dad was a huge part of my life, was home for dinner every night, is still with my mom and he always spent time with us. He is the man and super successful.

Oct 8 2012 10:06PM
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roddy116
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family friend owns a pretty awesome graphic design company and she wanted me to come work as an intern for her during the summer cause my mom showed her my work from last year in school. i might take it.
Oct 8 2012 10:10PM
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roor
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Learn how to sail and come to Newport. It's much easier than getting good grades
Oct 8 2012 10:14PM
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Amadeus.
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Probably my high-school english teacher. Dude went to Oxford, graduated top if his class, knows 7 languages, can recite all of Dantes Inferno in Italian and is probably one of the most knowledgable literary scholars I know. Not to mention he is a philosophical wizard who can speak and communicate things in ways I have never heard anyone ever do before.

He also plays rugby, has an insane fashion sense, and knows more about American history and politics then any american.

I think he is the smartest person I have ever met, and one of the smartest people I have ever listened to (in person or by audio alone) and read.
Oct 8 2012 10:15PM
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tbayskier
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dare i ask why he was teaching high school?
Oct 8 2012 10:18PM
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JaayLaay
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Brothers fiances father. Spent 25 years in the military and then partnered with the biggest accounting firm in texas. Multi-Millionaire

Oct 8 2012 10:20PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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My dad went from dropping out of college, installing car stereos, and living off mac n cheese to making six figures a year and having over five people working for him all without a college degree to be pretty successful.
Oct 8 2012 10:23PM
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Amadeus.
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The high school I went to is one of the best (and most expensive) in the country, so he is paid a fuck-ton by them, especially because he has been there for like 30+ years too. I think he also taught at a few universities. Columbia is the only one I can remember.
Oct 8 2012 10:24PM
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ebon_hawk
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Mike hornbeck
Oct 8 2012 10:26PM
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--ski--
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I've been doing work with The Rank Group lately, it is owned by New Zealand's wealthiest man. I've met the guy a lot and it's not his wealth that impresses me, it's his demeanor. He's a down to earth guy who refuses to get involved in the media and politics. He's the epitome of hard work, he was a truck driver until he was thirty then went into business himself. His kids are grounded and won't flaunt their wealth. He's just a genuine good guy that I have the utmost respect for.
Oct 8 2012 10:30PM
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tbayskier
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That's what i was guessing.  That's sweet, as an English Lit. Major I would love to meet the guy
Oct 8 2012 10:30PM
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Amadeus.
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Yeah he was amazing. I tried to take as many classes as I could with him. His classes are probably the only high school classes that will truly stick with me.
Oct 8 2012 10:33PM
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mathmansam
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My dad's cousin married a guy who didn't graduate from high school.  Then he got his PhD in physics from MIT.  Wanted to be a professor so he had two kids and was living a lovely life.  BAM got an offer to be second in command at a hedge fun run by mathematicians and physicists and was on his way to making billions. 

He has taken various members of my family to Italy, many islands, Iceland, etc.  His estimated worth is 2 billion.
Oct 8 2012 10:35PM
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tbayskier
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this thread is making me want to be successful.
Oct 8 2012 10:37PM
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ironic
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A humble person.
Oct 8 2012 10:38PM
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Davy.Crockett
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my exact thoughts
Oct 8 2012 10:38PM
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JaayLaay
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Also, i enjoy reading the posts in this thread alot haha.
Oct 8 2012 10:42PM
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POWDER.RANGER
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my dads good friend is an international commercial arbitrator, in english that means that when countries wanna sue each other he's the guy you call.
Oct 8 2012 10:45PM
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gotti
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My mom is the president of the american bar association (basically the group that runs lawyer procedure in america)

My uncle works for a brokerage firm. nuff said.
Oct 8 2012 10:47PM
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grown-ninja
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not to hate but vp doesnt mean much outaide a title, in most companies especially financial institutions once you make over 100k you get a vp title
Oct 8 2012 10:56PM
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