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I would say motivated people more than rich. I have a lot of rich friends who did not make the money on their own so they don’t really know what to do with it or how to build off of it. try to surround yourself with successful and positive people overall, I would say

To be rich,you need to work your ass off. What makes you think rich successful people would want to be around someone lower than them?

Are you looking for friends or customers as those are two very different things.

Become rich

Join an investor mastermind or a local Angel investor group. Likely only a couple grand to be a member of your local Angel group. Masterminds range depending on the exclusivity and whether the content is geared toward newbies or HNW. Great way to connect and network with successful entrepreneurs in your area (and as a bonus be exposed to deal flow and learn the language of business and deals- but even if you’re not in a position to invest a bunch yet, it’s a great learning and networking oppty and meeting movers and shakers in your community).

This is not how to get rich.

Short of inheriting, getting rich slow from real estate and stocks, you’re better off parlaying your most stand out skills and interests, and applying them to something scalable that you can turn into a business.

Become genuinely successful and successful people attract to you naturally.

Wealth follows.

Go to the most expensive area of your city and make a video where you ask them how they have come to earn so much money. It's a way to break the ice.

Golf club.

If you're a car guy.. track days. Porsche guys are fanatics.

Also high end car detailing or photography is good

Educate yourself and become valuable enough for rich people to hang around with. Don't be a leech

No one wants to be friends with someone that is trying to use them as a ladder. And wealthy people aren't idiots, they are used to people trying to use them in that way, and they will be able to tell.

I became friends with wealthier people because I just happened to have things in common with them. If you are passionate about tech or high finance and you grind there you'll make friends with people, and some of them will have had more success there.

Importantly, I never asked them for anything. I have friends from whom I would be ecstatic if they gave me a particular thing, but I won't lean or generally even ask, certainly not for more than I give them. Our friendship is genuine and not conditional on them being a step stool for me.

If you nothing to offer, why do they have to talk to you?. Rich kids are looking for pleasures.

Go hang out in Santa Barbara, California for a few weeks you’ll meet everyone.

Thinking the only way to get rich is have rich friends is absolute nonsense. You gain rich friends by becoming rich.. Also befriending someone with the primary goal of becoming rich is just plain weird. Become valuable, pave your own path and quit thinking people have to give you a hand to make it.

Your best option is probably going to business school. You’ll meet a lot of wealthy, soon to be wealthy (finance type), and super wealthy (international students). Make sure you go to a top school and don’t try too hard.

Your other option is to adopt a rich person hobby which is social. My suggestion is sailing, a membership can be pretty cheap, and once you know how to do it you can crew on other people’s boats. Those people are rich.

But above all, whatever you do, don’t try and pull a fast one on your new found rich friends. We have an eye for anyone who is trying to part us from our cash, and most of us aren’t mugs. Be a friend first, that’s more important.

And finally, fuck, why do you need to know rich people increase your financial position? All the knowledge you’ll ever need is online, accessible for free.

Wealthy people have expensive hobbies.

The more expensive the hobby, the more wealthy you have to be.

Go there and you will have many wealthy friends.

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Your network of people more than anything will determine how far in life you will get.

I know it is a generalization, but you get the point.

Rich is one type but the wealthy guy signs his paycheck. Ruth Chris bar, private clubs, cars & coffee, auto rally’s, art openings and fund raisers. Miami, Chicago, naples Florida, Scottsdale Az and skip LA it’s all fake money

What I mean is that it's not the same people with 1M net worth vs ppl with 100M net worth. Meeting the latter i think it's impossible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/17hz9oh/comment/k6r1diw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

It depends on how rich. What's your threshold of wealth?

But rich people don't want to be feiwnds with a poor person like yourself, that's the problem

Try this

https://www.reddit.com/user/Khuzdulk/comments/17i07ck/my_job_hunt_stats_after_being_laid_off_in_june/?p=1

Join a club or an athletic club that costs hundreds a month. Then network there.

You really need to make rich parents.

Go to a "posh" clubs and hit on the girls. The rich guys who can't do it will notice you. I always got invited to some table for drinks. But when I party I don't think about business deals.

In a small city the guy with his own car dealership could be the "rich" guy. In a capital this "rich" guy could have a huge business and a yacht in monaco. So the first serious move would be to leave the small city behind.

Any friendship you have to be worth their time too - it has to be mutual. So you can't just join a group of "rich people".

The real way to do it is to learn, learn, learn, try, perhaps fail, learn, try again, maybe fail again, learn more, try more, succeed. And network with people along the way. A person you just meet generally, unless they're feeling philanthropic towards you or have an attraction to you for some reason, won't just readily spend time teaching you things or bring you in to make you rich. It has to be of some mutual benefit. Think about what you can bring to the table as well and use that to network. Keep learning along the way, the more you know, the more valuable you become.

Forget all of those comments about wealthy individuals "not wanting" to relate with anyone beneath them, this is not true. My advice is to join hobbies or sports that are more wealthy oriented like golf, tennis, pickleball, sailing, etc..

Golf and pickleball are great places to start since you can get paired with randoms and meet them indirectly though the sport,

Caddy, Bartend. Be a server. Be super nice, provide the best service. Be yourself. Don’t try to act like you are there for something. Just be there for them. They like you, they make take you under there wing, get to know you.

Hand out in bars in those areas, bartend, serve.

Sweaty startup in those areas where it’s not being done. Provide superior service. Be genuine. Be you unless you are an idiot.

Some join churches in those areas. Volunteer yourself. Be visible. Be geniune.

Always heard in college teaching students that wanted to meet someone other than teachers studied in the business libraries. Law libraries. Med libraries. Instead of bar hopping or teacher library. Ended up marrying lawyers, cpas, physicians, you get the idea.

Become a blood boy

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/this-anti-aging-start-up-is-paying-thousands-of-dollars-for-teen-blood

Go to school with them and become genuine friends with them in a setting where money doesn't matter. Its happens before adulthood in some instances. Source: my education.

Common sense.

Your local politicians office.. 😂

Few options.

First, become a high value person, a lot of people are saying rich people wont want to hang out with you, but thats not true if you’re a very and fun/funny person to hang out with.

So make sure you have that first, provide them value.

Now where to find them.

County clubs. Specifically life time fitness. Such a worth it investment because high net worth individuals workout there.

You can meet them in the sauna, playing pickle ball or basketball.

Next is paid networking events and paid conventions. They are doing business so will be at these places.

Just inquire about them, be fun, dont try to sell them, just tell them what you do and hope they have interest in buying it and ask to hear more/buy.

There are millionaires who are right next to you wearing dirty cloths.

In this thread: poor people with weird assumptions on rich people and what you can offer them.

People are people, just solve problems worth their money and add value.

(Hint: There’s plenty of rich-people-subreddits you can lurk on and see their problems and wants and what not.)

Volunteer at Charity events. Look up the Boards of Directora of local charities until you find someone you want to meet. Ask to volunteer at their next event. Every organization needs check writers, but the also need doers. In my town there are mens groups who meet for coffee certain days of the week. You could hang out in coffee shops until you see a pattern, then figure out a way to sit in.

*how* to make rich friends: get rich yourself and they'll probably show up around you.

If you think the only place to look for rich people is NY and Silicon Valley then rich people probably won’t be interested in hanging out with you. One because you are looking to take advantage and two you are clearly fucking clueless so good luck getting into a circle of “rich” people. Yikes

I know entrepreneurs like to go against college and careers and all that. But since I got into cybersecurity and make near 200k/yr now, my access to rich friends has gone up dramatically. Just based on where I live and access to travel and expensive lifestyle choices. I have a good amount of millionaire friends now. Hopefully I join them soon enough.

As a rich person ( relatively speaking ) I’ve had the same group of friends for 25 years, I don’t have rich friends I know rich people but they are not friends if you want to be friends with someone just for how much money they have your doing friendship wrong.

Play golf at the local club. From there you will meet wealthy folk.

this is a sad post

I’m going to be honest. I know many wealthy people and I met them all through current friends or family. You have to have a connector to one and then get in good with that person and they will connect you to many more.

I did not come from money but have built a solid network of people with lots of money. If I can think on how it would be this path.

1. Majored in finance undergrad
2. Join a fraternity
3. Met multiple fraternity brothers from wealthy families
4. Expressed interest in what their families did business wise
5. Had them connected me to many other figures in my metro and got two internships in college
6. Expanded on those relationships at my internship
7. My internships lead to employment and my current career

Lastly I have two wealthy extended family members that will answer my call anytime and that helps. However that doesn’t mean they will ever give me a dime.

Sailing, volunteer to be a extra hand with some yacht club

Trade shows in international cities