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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
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ever fortune had to be earned

" Well ,at some point,everybody,ever fortune had to be earned the old-fashioned way. And be multiplied indefinitely beyond the limitations of your own personal efforts. It can be an oil business ,like John D. Rockefeller did the old-fashioned way is ,you set up a business that can with the Standard Oil Trust..."

Please explain the bold group of words.
  

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You've misquoted or got hold of a poor translation here. Googling shows an interview on the world's richest people that reads: "Well, at some point, everybody, every fortune had to be earned the old-fashioned way. And the old-fashioned way is, you set up a business that can be multiplied indefinitely beyond the limitations of your own personal efforts.

— Nona the brit

  • You've misquoted or got hold of a poor translation here.
  • Googling shows an interview on the world's richest people that reads: "Well, at some point, everybody, every fortune had to be earned the old-fashioned way.
  • And the old-fashioned way is, you set up a business that can be multiplied indefinitely beyond the limitations of your own personal efforts.
  • It can be an oil business, like John D.
  • Rockefeller did with the Standard Oil Trust.
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You've misquoted or got hold of a poor translation here. Googling shows an interview on the world's richest people that reads:

"Well, at some point, everybody, every fortune had to be earned the old-fashioned way. And the old-fashioned way is, you set up a business that can be multiplied indefinitely beyond the limitations of your own personal efforts. It can be an oil business, li
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Nona The BritYou've misquoted or got hold of a poor translation here. Googling shows an interview on the world's richest people that reads:

"Well, at some point, everybody, every fortune had to be earned the old-fashioned way. And the old-fashioned way is, you set up a business that can be multiplied indefinitely beyond the limitations of your own personal
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You have to work hard in order to make a fortune. You do not get a fortune by sitting and doing nothing.
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Feebs11You have to work hard in order to make a fortune. You do not get a fortune by sitting and doing nothing.
Thank you Feebs11.

But still I cannot understand it because of the use of `the old-fashioned way' after `earned'.

Every fortune have to be earned the old fashioned way.

Is this mean, `We should work hard to create fort
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No, old-fashioned does not mean out-dated here. IT just means the 'traditional' way. You make money by creating a business empire, rather than, for example, just investing in something. Bill Gates made his fortune the 'old-fashioned' way they talk about here, yet you couldn't call anything about him or his business (Microsoft) out-dated.
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