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Where do rich people invest? Gee Wizz I am stuck. I am trying to figure out what is important. I really appreciate your help.

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Q. Why do rich people invest?

The rich do not keep the working man down. They pay your salaries. They do not just blow their money. Most of the wealthiest people in the world have 3 things they do. They invest, give, and spend very little. Most of the time when you see some extravagant purchase from a wealthy person, it`s because their investments have paid for it. They really do not "lose" money, because they use the money from interest and dividends to pay for their toys. Then they reinvest, the rest of their money to keep it working for them

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Q. What do rich people invest in?

Rich people invest their money in such businesses where they can forecast a good ROI (Return On Investment) and they usually take risks as risk is directly proportional to the expected gain in any business. This is in fact a simple rule of any business. Rich people invest in both private businesses and in public sector businesses, i.e. in the shares of stock markets. They also do sole proprietary type of businesses.

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Q. How do rich people invest their money?

Rich people prefer to invest their money bcoz they want to increase their money, that`s why they don`t save their money in banks and invest to have more money.

Q. Why do rich people invest when they are already rich?
obviously i’m not rich or i would not be asking, but i have been reading a lot about international political economy (ipe) in college. everyone around me seems to understand why people invest, where foreign direct investment comes from, and how to live without working. what is to prevent industrialized governments (especially the hegemon) from seizing assets from foreign investors and redistributing them to their population? i come from a modest background, so the only investments folks had growing up were their homes or their restored cars. it was a blue collar type neighborhood. this is perhaps why i do not know why people who become rich continue to want to make more money. why get richer when one could be spending time with family, working on hobbies, or traveling? is it greed? if i were rich, i would do the above items after selling whatever made me rich, because the accumulation of more money would seem like a moot endeavor. in fact, if i had extra money, i think i would just give it away to friends and family. why keep it? you can not take money with you when you die. so, if anyone has some answers for me, i would like to thank you for your impute.

Because, with the exception of people who strike it rich off the lottery, or have an oil well drilled on their land, or any other type of thing that makes them rich "overnight" -- there is a train of thought that goes through the mind of the independently wealthy. They've made their money by playing it smart. Not by dwindling it away on needless things. They understand the risk/reward, the advantages of having actual assets, and the importance of continuing to use their minds for their money. It's the same reason that some rich folks aren't too fond of tipping. They're tight with their money, and that's what got them where they are. Just because you have $10M in the bank, i'm sure you wouldn't say no to an additional $1M, or more... Your points also are reflective of your own personal experiences. They're part of what make you who you are. It's the same with the rich that I spoke of. What made them rich was a good head and a smart play book. Personally, if I were to make it big with any of my endeavors, I would be one to continually push on and make as much as I possibly could. There would be no limit to where I would stop. I would also spend as much time with the family as I could, and give them the best possible life i could, and that's the same reason I would want to make as much as I could before I left the Earth. You're correct in that you can't take money to the grave when you go.. But you can give it to your spouse, if still alive. It can still be passed down to your children, your grandchildren, their grandchildren.. ETC.

Q. To get rich, why don't people invest in investments that banks invest their money in?
since banks get super rich by investing your money, what stops people from finding out where banks invest and doing the same?

Because banks get their money from using your money and borrowing it to other people for, basically, free profit. You could start your own bank but it would take millions of dollars.

Q. Do rich people invest in individual stocks?

Yes

Q. Why won't rich people, invest in other people ...?
their are people out there, if they had a chance with a little cash, they would be the next steve jobs, or bill gates, or even another facebook hit. if your a millionaire and you get the chance to read this, please answer my question... thanks,

We do invest in bright young people. Scholarships and other help so they aren't stalled out. I have never seen a truly gifted young person not get help. My niece married a boy who was a poor child of a single mother. He had drive, determination, worked hard and learned fast. He was 14 when she picked him and when he finished high school he had nothing. His mom gave him first month's rent and security deposit for graduation so he and my niece both left their family homes and set up housekeeping. The first year was rough but he landed a job then changed jobs twice always in the same field. When he was 19 they bought a condo together, at 20 sold the condo and bought a house. At 21 he married my niece, she didn't want to marry him until he grew up. Then they had a son and he was still progressing at work. He found a shop for sale by owner. He had proven his worth so my brother mortgaged his house to loan the boy money to buy the business. They were soon able to buy a bigger house and his wife stay home with their son and run a in home daycare. Within 3 years he was able to have his wife be a full time SAHM just before the daughter was born. Now the kids are 10 and 13 parents are 35 and 36 and they own 3 houses and two businesses and the home they live in cost over a million on waterfront. When you see a kid like that who will work hard and learn everything and has drive you almost can't help backing him.

Q. Poll: did the education system do a good job at teaching you to hate corporations and rich people?
did the schools teach you successfully that rich people and corporations are all "evil" while completely ignoring the fact that rich people invest a lot of money, create jobs with that money, etc? or that corporations mass produce a lot of cheap goods and create a lot of jobs?

That's what college is for, to teach you to hate rich corporations, Hate all war, and think all politicians are liars, or and to be a vegetarian.

Q. Why don't rich people invest in poor people who have obvious talent to make great things to share with/world ?

Because they are afraid they might surpass them ? :-)

Q. How do rich people invest there money?

Depends on their risk tolerance and their tax status. Some rich people are agressive but a lot of them want maintain their wealth and not risk losing it. Aggressive people might lean toward stocks or commodities(oil, gold, etc), maybe real estate, which have a higher potential return but also a higher degree of potential losses. Conservative people may invest in Treasury bonds, municipal bonds, cd's. Most will be diversified with thier money in a mix of these things based on their risk tolerance and a lot of other factors. The older they are usually the less risk they can afford to take. All rich people are not the same, neither are their investment portfolios.

Q. Why does the right think rich people spend, invest or use their money?
if rich people were to spend their money it would create jobs and wealth for others as the demand for an item increases the company that produces the item would have to hire more people to keep up with demand and increase their employees wages to keep them from working for someone else in the same business this all sounds good except for the fact that i learned from rachel maddow that rich people don't spend, invest or use their money, they just keep it under their bed so no one can benefit from it so why does the right pretend that rich people spend their money when we all know they don't? why doesn't the right listen to great news sources like msnbc who have super high rating and billions of really smart viewers?

I guess those people on "cribs" didn't actually spend money on those houses, cars, mini theaters, pools, etc. Some rich people may be wise with their money and have some invested or set aside, but its absurd to believe they never spend any of their money.

Q. Should us govt give a tax credit to rich people who invest in poor people's businesses?
this is an idea i thought up just today and i think it may be a very good one. basically by giving a special tax credit to a person who earns more than $100,000 per year, provided that person invests at least 50% of the cost of a start-up company run by an individual with less than $100,000 salary.... this will give wealthy people a tax incentive to help poor people make money! a poor person with a great business idea to grow the economy, but no money, could then pitch the idea to investors and/or apply for a grant. the investors will now receive an extra dose of return for taking a risk on a poor person's business idea. if the business idea had no merrit, then the rich person would know even with the tax credit, it's not worth the investment. but this tax credit would create more new businesses and create jobs, and help poor people who want to own their own companies and have no money to take a risk. isn't this a good idea? this is a win-win situation for the poor. either a poor person gets an investor to back his/her innovative idea. or the rich person will not receive any such tax credit. so it's not a giveaway to the rich at all, but it does help the rich if they help the poor. but not only will the rich person be getting a tax credit out of this deal, they would also enjoy at least 50% of the return on the investment by owning a share of the start-up company. i say federalize it so that there will be more venture capitalists than there are now. the economic impact of the tax credit will increase the # of investors

I think you're confused if you think $100,000 a year is rich.

Q. How did people that invest in google get rich?
google is a free service that everyone use how did the people working there get tons of money?

Google is NOT a free service for the advertisers - that is how Google makes money. When you search, the top few listings are paid for by sponsors. For each click on one of those search results, the advertiser pays Google anywhere from a few cents to over a dollar. However, the stockholders in Google got rich because they got in early (a lot were employees). At one time, Google was a little upstart working out of a garage and Yahoo, AOL and Alta Vista (who??) ruled search. If you bought Google at that time you are very very well off.

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