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Originally Posted by Lauxa  I've heard before that if you want to be rich, hang out with rich people. So where do you meet rich people and what do you do together? I seem to attract only poor people into my life, usually people with less money than me. I know this is partly because I'm more comfortable with poor people, maybe because of low self-esteem and rich standards seem so much higher that I'm afraid I could never measure up. But still, do you join an investment club or something? I once took a class on real estate investing, but it's not really my "thing" and I certainly didn't make any long-term friends there. |
There are lots of ways to meet rich people. My personal favorite is to start a service that caters to them. I started out in real estate investing by finding good deals for other major players in town. Then I moved to raising private money. Each service made me valuable to different groups of wealthy people.
Once people recognized that I was good at it, I started to get speaking requests for investor clubs and private events. Not only were those good for meeting people, but I was featured as an expert, which dramatically increase my credibility with people I wanted to get to know.
But none of it has to be that complicated. You can start with picking wealthy people and just inviting them out to lunch. You'll be surprised how often this works. Tell them you're getting started and you want advice from the best. Golf and poker games are also good.
Being uncomfortable with people more successful than you is fairly natural, but here's the more relevant question: do you like them? Would you enjoy hanging around them for five hours a week or more for the next 20 years? If not, then they'll be able to sense it and you'll have a lot of trouble.
Plus, you'll be miserable hanging around them if you don't actually enjoy it.