I agree with both bosses But with exceptions.

"Rich" to different people have different perception. When you are contented with what you have, usually you will feel rich. The number of zeros in your bank account does not matter to define "rich"

But to a greedy man, he will never feel rich.

I involve a lot in business associations. Thus I know a lot of businessmen friends in a few industries. In general (maybe 90%), these rich businessmen do CARE about how people thought about them. And mind you, their businesses are worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Some are Datuks and Tan Sri who own a few listed companies. Are they not rich enough ? They drive fancy cars. If a new model is out, they are the first ones to drive and show off to everyone. They wear those expensive watches. They always boost about their overseas trip that cost hundreds of thousand. Children education, wife's designer bags/cloths and even how many mistresses and which famous model became their mistresses ! They always compete against each other. If one friend says out loud his car/watch is not good enough, the friend become his enemy immediately. What does that tell us ? Because they CARE about how people think of them. Are they not rich enough ?

But 1 thing I observed, although they are "monetarily rich", most of them are not really happy

Yes, actually it is a matter of personal choice. Some rich people don't care what others think about them, whereas other rich people do care a lot about what others think of them

I am just responding to the statement "1) You are not RICH enough. Hence, you need to CARE how people think of you." It is a sweeping statement which generalise the mentality of rich people. In real life, it does not apply to all rich people

Boss, as per my reply to edyek, there are 101 type of rich people. Some do CARE about what others think of them...

Dreamer Boss, google "the richest people in the world". The criteria Forbes, Business Times etc use is $ and nothing else. Too bad they don't measure those billionaires' using FREEDOM as their criteria. Or else you must be THE RICHES MAN on Earth. Maybe Mars too

If you want definition, lets google it :



http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rich

In NO WHERE is the definition of RICH mention a tidy bit of FREEDOM

I think you are going more into PHILOSOPHY. If your definition of "RICH" is more into philosophy, then rest assured I understand what you said

Dreamer boss,
I hope you do realise you are in a property investment forum where we are trying to make money / profits.

What you preach is "life is short", "time is more precious", "master of their wealth" kind of philosophy.

Are you sure you are in the right forum arrr....