2025-02-10
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I walked across the road and I saw a gentleman with an Aston Martin.
And I asked him, what skills do you possess that's allowed you to for this car?
His advice was to study hard in school, get experience abroad if I can.
Like genuine, genuine hard work.
After the conversation,
I walked off and then he pulled up beside me in his car
and poured out like a wad of cash from his side pocket and gave me £40
for asking him the question.
Wow.
Yeah, I was £40 richer in Kensington walking around.
But asking people on the streets wasn't working, so I decided to go and knock on people's doors.
As a teenager,
Reggie Nelson decided he wanted to change his family's fortunes by asking anyone he could one simple question.
How do wealthy people get so rich?
It was a quest motivated by some time in a jail cell