how to make quick money

[Metamorphosis]

Blackmail/extort someone (who is rich)

 

[Udog]

no its actually not. im in the middle of deciding what i want to do with my life and i know i want to do business/marketing. Do you have any good websites or any info that could get me on the right track? ie: school courses-highschool/college. or anything of a sort?

Sorry... I've never formally studied the stuff, and just randomly check things out as I find them.

A good idea (that I've been doing on and off) is to study up on people and products that have made it. How did Bill Gates succeed? How did Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, go from small players renting a garage to being one of the biggest companies in the world? Why is Twilight such a success when there are superior book series out there?

Learn to discern their patterns. How did they view things like failure? How smart were they vs how good were they at hiring smart people? (That latter is important! It's often better to befriend an expert than to become an expert yourself.)

Develop multiple skills, and learn how to intermingle them. Scott Adams (creator of the comic Dilbert) didn't get rich because he was the best IT guy, or because he was the best artist, or even because he was the funniest. He got rich because he combined all three skills in a unique way.

You'll find that in order to break the $100,000 a year mark, you need to start getting creative with your career choices.

 

[Timeless]

Become a gigolo.

 

[yenom]

start a Lemonade stand.
look for business failures (look for companies going bankrupt) and turn them into success.

the only way to make money is to steal other people's businesses.

 

[highlander]

Sorry... I've never formally studied the stuff, and just randomly check things out as I find them.

A good idea (that I've been doing on and off) is to study up on people and products that have made it. How did Bill Gates succeed? How did Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, go from small players renting a garage to being one of the biggest companies in the world? Why is Twilight such a success when there are superior book series out there?

Learn to discern their patterns. How did they view things like failure? How smart were they vs how good were they at hiring smart people? (That latter is important! It's often better to befriend an expert than to become an expert yourself.)

Develop multiple skills, and learn how to intermingle them. Scott Adams (creator of the comic Dilbert) didn't get rich because he was the best IT guy, or because he was the best artist, or even because he was the funniest. He got rich because he combined all three skills in a unique way.

You'll find that in order to break the $100,000 a year mark, you need to start getting creative with your career choices.

Good suggestions. Check out Sam Walton and Cornelius Vanderbilt too

Still, I think get rich quick = fail. IMHO - 100K shouldn't be too hard if you pick the right profession. 500K or more requires highly valued skills, right place in right time, leadership, and maybe creativity. 2M or more requires something different - a will and the ability to rise the top of an organization (long time), serious luck, or serious entrepreneurship.

 

[highlander]

start a Lemonade stand.

I did this. It didn't work.

look for business failures (look for companies going bankrupt) and turn them into success.

Easier said than done.

the only way to make money is to steal other people's businesses.

I know people do this but this is where I would draw the line. Not ethical, trampling on others = not worth doing.

I may kick their ass in the marketplace, legitimately, but never steal.

 

[Frank]

If you can master anything and you want it quick I would go with online poker. The barriers to entry are non-existant and the risk/reward ratio is huge as long as you don't play with more than you can afford to lose, which would fuck with your play anyways. The amount of time for an investment to reach its potential is seconds to minutes. Also if you truly can master it then you will have a quantitative advantage over the many bad players.

 

[Frank]

I may kick their ass in the marketplace, legitimately, but never steal.

Well said.

 

[Sniffles]

Become a gigolo.

To really fat chicks.

That or just sell sperm.

 

[yenom]

I did this. It didn't work.



Easier said than done.



I know people do this but this is where I would draw the line. Not ethical, trampling on others = not worth doing.

I may kick their ass in the marketplace, legitimately, but never steal.

There is no ethics in the business world. Only competition and marketshare.

If we are competing in the same market, the only way to beat the opponent is to steal his business.

 

[FDG]

There is no ethics in the business world.

Another line of bullshit by cloud. Ever heard of laws?

 

[Timeless]

Other ideas:

• Become a stripper, you'd have to be ripped like Jesus to do that though.
• Play at Moola.com
• Dedicate your life and soul to one game and become really good at it enough to go to a competition and beat other players for lots of money ($1,000 - $10,000) / Professional Gamer.
• Make a pornsite.
• Sell oranges on the street.

 

[LucrativeSid]

Here is a realistic and practical suggestion that you could start working on right now. Write and market an information based e-book. Most likely some kind of "how to" e-book. And make sure there's a good market for it that you can actually tap into.

Also, get the best paying job that you're currently qualified for. You need money for leverage. If you go with the e-book idea, for example, the extra $100 a week will be well worth the time it took for you to make it. Why? Because you'll be able to use that money to buy all the best information that will help you accomplish your goal. It could possibly take you 150 hours of trial and error to get to the same level of competency that you could achieve if you worked for just a few hours at a crappy job and bought an $80 book that teaches you everything you need to know about that particular endeavor. Information is worth paying for. It's sometimes better to work for money and buy the information than to the simply look for or discover the information on your own because you'll save a lot of time.

 

[yenom]

Another line of bullshit by cloud. Ever heard of laws?

*gives a retarded look*

 

[Randomnity]

so heres the thing. i am pretty much a master at anything i put my mind to

lol

stopped reading here. You remind me of the bf I had when I was 17. No, that's not a compliment.

 

[magil]

Find an economic niche to fill. For most people, this is a normal job but if you want to get rich, dicovering a new niche and being the first to develope it can allow you to monopolize that industry, feild, whatever it may be.

Your wealth depends on your customers. The market is give and take and you seek from them what optimal qualities they seek from you. Quanity- your amount of speculated customers and quality- the wealth of specualted customers are areas to consider when thinking of starting a bussiness.
The best niche to fill though, I don't think money would be it's primary purpose. It would be a genuine necessity like devloping a cure, or an honest creation of art to please people and yourself.
So basically, if you want to find of an economic niche, think of a want or need you have. If you ever come across one that isn't yet being provided that feasibly could well then, there is your golden oppurtunity.

So what do people want? and enjoy? I think you could answer as well as I. Also, I wouldn't realy discount the value of novelty. (Snuggies!) It can get you fairly far. However you generally need money to start off with to make money, which is I think where stock holders come in to play. Or maybe you could just get starting loans?

So yeah. All other ways besides that I'm pretty sure involve exploitation and are unethical to some degree. I would seriously not recommend exploiting your ethics in order to get more money- power esscentially- that you think will make you happy. It's so not worth it. And it won't. If you haven't already culitvated your abilities for happiness with what you have already, then excess won't help.

Think why you even want to get rich to begin with? Is it to fulfill something concrete? Like you want to get rich so you can run for office or help this charity? Do you already know exactly what you want your money for? Exactly in the long term? Or are you just chasing after some lifestyle . . . some ideal, or imagined way of life that if you only had that THEN you would be happy. Well, if you don't even know what you want, what makes you happy, than all the money in the world won't be able to buy it for you. Even when you aquire the lifestyle you've dreamed of, you will not aquired what you've been missing all this time. You won't have changed at all and soon you'll find yourself feeling as you did before except now you will be sorely jaded because you spent all that time and effort to learn one of the most basic lessons of life.

 

[StrawMan]

Probably these have been suggested already, but for quick money (or busto):

- online poker (well ok, the tables are getting tougher)
- short term trading (derivatives especially) and financial markets in general

The biggest profits, as far as I know, come from selling weapons, drugs, and sex. The business may be a bit risky.

 

[Fluffywolf]

Sell yourself to an eccentric gay billionaire.

 

[StrappingYoungLad]

Sell a kidney.