I used to work with a company Called TSI. I was friends with the owners daughter and got to know this guy a little bit along with his partner and his family. This family has a net worth in the 100M range.

One time the owner held a meeting with all the workers and opened the floor to questions. One of the department managers came at him with many problems his department was having. All the owner kept saying was "what's the solution?"

He said this several times, even getting slightly annoyed and raising his voice saying, "WHAT'S THE SOLUTION?"

The position I held had me in contact with all levels of the company from the wage laborers to the President and the owner.

The wage earners thought the owner was rude for what he did to the manager at the meeting.

Some of the things I gathered from how he and his family think were:

Assume personal responsibility
Whoever is closest to the problem has the solution
Envy is dangerous and self destructive
Find a way to afford things
It's OK to have nice things (he owned a Chrysler Prowler)
The walls have ears so be careful about saying unconstructive things and allowing rumors to spread through a company.


I had an Uncle who inherited a lot of money. As a boy I thought he was rich (probably had a net worth of less then 10M.) The one thing I remember him saying was that he thought it sucked because the government took almost half of his inhertance away. Although he did not die destitute he left with less than what he started with. Just before he died he made mention of this fact about the governemt again. Almost 30 years later.