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would you rather be wealthy or smarter? why

Sometimes i see wealthy people who dont often seem so wise
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fallen_ang... fallen_ang...
 
 November 08, 2009 11:49 AM
If I'd choose between being wealthy or smart, I'd choose being smart.

If you're smart, you can achieve your goals in life. You can be rich, you can also be famous if you want to, you be powerful, etc. You can plan your life well and be successful in anything you venture. Think of the wealthy people right now. Bill Gates for example. You think Bill Gates will be the wealthiest man on earth if he isn't smart? Of course not.

If you are wealthy but not smart enough, you can lose everything you have in just a blink of the eye. If you're not playing well in your field, then pretty soon, you'll lose every cent you have.

In life, you just have to be smart... wealth comes later. :)
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vladis vladis
 
November 08, 2009 09:35 AM
Nice question....None. I prefer to be healthy. The brain can be trained. If you are smart, then you obviously can use your brain to make money. But your health is the most important thing in the world.

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annelisle annelisle
 
November 08, 2009 11:33 AM
I prefer to be smart rather than wealthy because wealth can be robbed or if you are not smart enough the money won't last. But if you are smart and not wealthy you will have a very interesting life. Smart people knows how to create things, they know how to solve problems, and most of all they know ways to survive and make money eventually if they think being wealthy is smart enough.

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theblindtr... theblindtr...
 
November 08, 2009 12:57 PM
I would rather be smarter....
So I can use that intelligence to become wealthy...

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hillwillia... hillwillia...
 
November 08, 2009 01:45 PM
Neither I would rather Respect! You can never "be" Wealthy or Smart, It is always a down slope.
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psynopsis psynopsis
 
November 08, 2009 03:43 PM
I would choose to be Smarter, with intelligence you can become wealthy. Look at all the rich and wealthy people, most of them are intelligent and became rich by using it. A good example is Bill Gates or the guys who created Twitter.

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silverhamm... silverhamm...
 
November 08, 2009 03:57 PM
If wealthy was a choice I'd choose the wealth.

Being smart doesn't equal wealth down the road, there are plenty of people with the smarts who are upstaged by the wealthy or someone who knew the right people or were in the right place at the right time.

If smarts was all it took there'd be a lot more millionaires than we have today. I think wishing for smarts is kind of an admission of failure at wealth.

I see that everyone who chose one of the two always picked smarts. Seriously, if smarts can make you rich, wouldn't you be rich by now?

Oh and in reference to the wording of the question, you may not see wealthy people who are very wise, but being smarter doesn't automatically make you wiser either.

If I'm rich I can always learn. If I'm smart there's no guarantee I'll get rich. Yeah, money works for me. :)

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antjecobbe... antjecobbe...
 
November 08, 2009 04:03 PM
I´d rather be smarter, then I can get wealthy if I set my mind to it!

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kaliekat kaliekat
 
November 08, 2009 04:47 PM
Smarter is also my choice. If I was smarter I could do everything faster and have time to do more things.

The only reason I can think of to want to be wealthy is to be able to help people who need money.

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roclvpt roclvpt
 
November 08, 2009 09:48 PM
The obvious answer at first would be wealthy, but I prefer to be smarter that wealthy, because I know that I would be able to use my knowledge to make good business decisions witch would bring me financial wealth.

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shaunken shaunken
 
November 08, 2009 11:06 PM
i rather be smart than wealthy because by being smart, you can be wealthy. how can someone be wealthy if he is not smart enough to make tough decisions and to have excellent ideas.


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