Giving and Receiving Respect on Your Financial Roller Coaster
Healthy Wealthy nWise
Who doesn't love a rags-to-riches story? Bill Bartmann is a living example of one, going from high school drop-out and gang member at age 14 to millionaire by the time he was 30. Kathy, his wife, helped turn him around. They've been married over 30 years, and through the ups and downs, she has never left his side.
Kathy is the one who convinced Bill Bartmann to get his GED, undergraduate degree, and later his law degree, all with a great deal of effort necessary. Because of his hard work and unwillingness to accept failure, Bill was able to open a law practice helping people who couldn't afford to hire an attorney.
Bill Bartmann stayed in the law business for only about five years before going into real estate. This is where his financial roller coaster began. In the 1970's, just about anyone could make a fortune in real estate. He was making millions by the time he was 30 years old. He left real estate for oil and had equal success, but when the price of oil dropped, he went bankrupt.
To add insult to injury, debt collectors started hassling Bill and Kathy over the phone. It was appalling how rude these people could be! Even if he had the money, he wouldn't have wanted to pay those awful people. That's when it hit him. Why not start a "nice" debt collection business? This idea was so successful that Bill was once again a millionaire.
How could such a business NOT succeed? Most people are generally good-hearted and really want to pay their debts, but when something happens like a job loss or an illness, people are simply unable to pay. Bill knew that yelling wouldn't solve the problem, so his company showed respect and asked people to send whatever they could.
In Bill Bartmann's life, whether his efforts yielded rags or riches, he has done everything with passion. Teachers told him to get a job making big bucks, but he knew a money-job wasn't going to make him happy if he didn't already love the job before making the money. He knew that success meant happiness rather than money.
Bill has been a millionaire three times, and now he's a billionaire, but he's also been bankrupt twice. He got his education at school, but his real knowledge came from the school of hard knocks. Bill uses his knowledge to help others with his Billionaire Mentor Program. Bill's program is different than all the others out there, because he shows his participants respect.
Bill respects the entrepreneurs in his business school as much as he respected the families who couldn't pay their debts. He doesn't toss out magic ponies and regurgitated information that you've heard a million times. He doesn't even sell products. He teaches you what you need to know starting from whatever level you're ready for, and everything he does is included in the price of membership. Now that's respect!
>From rags-to-riches,
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