On 3/7/08, si acep hayang cuan salilana heuheuy deudeuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> From: riwan prasatya <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <riwanp%40yahoo.com>>
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:52:22 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [linkers] lease vs. purchase
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <ipb-link%40yahoogroups.com>
> Hi everyone,
> Artikel menarik dari majalah Fortune (katanya orang yang forward ke
> saya lho) untuk hiburan menjelang week-end.
> Case lease vs. purchase ini salah satu case classic yang selalu
> dibahas di pelajaran bisnis maupun di dunia bisnis sehari-hari.
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> A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:
> Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?
> I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this
> year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a
> guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy,
> but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New
> York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who
> has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to
> ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've
> dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is
> my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential
> area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is
> not enough.
> I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:
> 1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names
> and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
> 2) Which age group should I target?
> 3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a
> few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they are
> able to marry rich guys
> 4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your
> girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
> Ms. Pretty
> Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:
> Dear Ms. Pretty,
> I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of
> girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me
> to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income
> is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone
> believes that I'm not wasting time here.
> From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to
> marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the
> details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and
> "money": Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and
> square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade,
> but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my
> income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier
> year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an
> appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just
> normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your
> only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later
> By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position,
> dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value
> dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long
> term same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to
> say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great
> depreciation value will be sold or "leased". Anyone with over $500k
> annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not
> marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to
> marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a
> rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than
> finding a rich fool.
> Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do
> contact me
> signed, J.P. Morgan
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