In the 1950's, a few people in India helped Maharishi a lot when he was
struggling financially.
Later on when Maharishi copyrighted the TM and started getting millions
of dollars, he ignored them completely.!! He never even acknowledged those who
helped him go to the west and establish himself financialy secure.
Both Deepak Chopra's father and Chopra helped Maharishi a lot and yet in
the end he kicked Chopra out.!!
Perhaps both Bill Gates and Maharishi have something in common.
--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: commitment belief trust and adveristy
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 3:28 AM
I'm sure it is. Did your original investors not
getting their money back have any impact on *their*
families or *their* lifestyles?
And again, your "funding" (theoretically, more
investment in your business ideas) comes through,
and the *first* you do with it is buy a house for
you and your family? While the question of how
much is left for the business idea or how much
goes to repaying your original investors remains
unaddressed?
I lived in New Mexico for several years. Few people
know that Microsoft started there, in Albuquerque.
During my time there I ran into probably two dozen
people who still spit every time they hear the name
"Bill Gates" because he blew town and moved to Seattle
owing them tens of thousands of dollars, and in a few
cases hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The richest man in the world has never paid those
debts. He has never even *acknowledged* those debts.
Bill Gates can give away billions of dollars to
charity for the rest of his life, but not one of
these people he left holding the bag are ever going
to have an ounce of respect for him.
All I'm suggesting is that as things come around for
you and you start to get back on your feet financially,
you might want to put some thought into repaying the
people who invested in you earlier, instead of referring
to them as having "backed out on you."
I'm sorry, but the almost complete self-absorbtion of
your post leads me to believe they might have had some
reason for doing so. Even if this is not true, the bottom
line is that if you still owe them money, you still owe
them money.
They didn't *give* you the money, dude...they *invested*
in you. If you don't repay their investment, you can
write here all you want about how your vision helped you
through the struggle, but that's like listening to Bill
Gates spout bullshit about how he made billions by being
so smart, when in fact he got rich by bailing on his debts.
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