[roadtoharvard]

Originally Posted by ltressel

Hi Harvard,

I don't disagree to self sacrificing. In fact, people need to have more self sacrificing attitude than self entitlement. Where I might think that I disagree with you is the tunnel vision of the concept. While people shouldn't be keeping up with the Jones', having the martyrdom attitude is also utterly ridiculous.

To some the "martyrdom attitude" as you describe it will be the ticket out of poverty.

Originally Posted by ltressel

I had a plan though, I kept the job for 4 years while they pay for my car, my cellphone, and my home office utilities, and my gas. I took every penny of the 3% raise I got and dumped it in a 401K plan. In the meantime, I was looking good on paper for the banks to see that they can approve me for investment houses in Vegas that I sold later and made $250K profits on.

Four years later, while building a fail safe exit plan, I took out all my 401K, summing up to $25K, built several businesses after and have never looked back. That was in 2005.

Where did I get all that idea? Hundreds of books I read that ranged from real estate, self helps, and money magazines. Saved me a ton of money than following the road to Harvard. Oh, and I did read Think and Grow
Rich.

A sincere congratulations on your successes. I am always happy to hear about the different paths people take to success. The journey is never clearcut. I'm not entirely sure what you mean when you say that you saved more using your own plan than the "road to Harvard." The Road to Harvard is the name of my blog and refers to my attempt to join the HBS. Did you mean to say that you saved a ton more using your own plan than the one that was outlined in my post "How to escape poverty"? If so I would question the validity of your statement as you have never implemented the plan and as such have no way of comparing both. Perhaps you meant to say I think I would have saved a ton more using my plan than if i had used the one in the post "How to escape poverty".

I too read Think and Grow rich. Was your reference to the title a claim that the book was in part responsible for your success? My experience with the book was quite different. I thought it was garbage but to each his own.

[sarathy]

You seem to have an amazing flair for writing. I really appreciate your efforts and it was good reading it. Do keep coming up with such nice ones. And keep us posted too!