After your bank account reaches a certain level, there are some things you just don’t have to bother with anymore. Curious? Join us as we look at the 15 Things The Rich Don’t Have to Do!
When you’re rich you don’t worry about a lot of the things regular people do.
Rich people build infrastructure around themselves, so they don’t need to deal with many of the problems that common people do.
If these apply to you, know that you made it! Here are 15 Things The Rich Don’t Have to Do
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The rich don’t wait in line
When you’re rich, you don’t wait in line for anything.
You don’t wait in line to get the new iPhone; you don’t wait in line to get in the club, you don’t wait in line at the restaurant, you don’t wait in line to go through security or board the plane like everyone else…
Believe it or not, you don’t even wait in the waiting room when you go to the hospital.
That’s because wealth allows you priority access.
Like museums, if you pay a little more, you get to skip the line. If you pay even more, you get a private showing tailored just to you.
2
The rich don’t carry a coat or a bag around
This is one of those things that immediately seems odd to you when you meet actually wealthy people.
Even in the winter, they just have their “inside” clothes on and their credit card glued to their phone.
Why? They have a driver that takes them places.
The car is outside, so they’re going from a climate-controlled environment to another climate-controlled environment.
They don’t need to carry things on them because they’re not going for a picnic.
Stop any poor person, and in their bag, you’ll find an entire universe of tools, products, and nicknacks that could only come in handy in specific situations.
3
The rich don’t buy tickets of any kind
You don’t buy bus tickets because you don’t really ride the bus.
You Uber or, at most, you walk to your destination because you live in the city center.
In fact, you have a concierge that does all of that for you; you just let them know what you want to happen.
You don’t buy tickets to shows, you don’t buy airline tickets, and you most certainly don’t buy lottery tickets because your parents taught you early that: The lottery is a tax for people who don’t know math!
4
The rich don’t look at price tags on the menu
When you’re poor, you know exactly how much you can afford to spend on the rare occasions when you get to eat out, and there’s usually a lot of real-time math happening when you’re ordering with the group.
That doesn’t happen for rich people.
If dessert is going to happen, it’s a matter of how they’re feeling, not how much it costs.
They don’t need to check the prices on the menu because almost all restaurants have a cap on just how much food is going to cost.
For example, the tasting menu at a Michelin-star restaurant costs on average $500 per person.
With wine pairings and the caviar bonus, you close in on $1000 per person.
That’s the ceiling. If you’re comfortable with the ceiling, anything below it doesn’t matter.
There are two exceptions to this, and here we enter connoisseur land.
Even rich people start to care about the price tag when you enter a realm designed to milk their demographic. By that, we mean high-end clubs like Cirque Le Soir in London or Nammos in Mykonos.
The price tags in Nammos, Mykonos
You know… the kind of places where you have bottles priced at over $100,000.
But those are usually reserved for special occasions.
Even the richest people we know never spend over $500,000 on a birthday—jets, hotels, and clubs included.
5
The rich don’t pay bills or do any administrative work themselves
Most rich people have no idea how much water, electricity, or the internet cost.
It usually gets bundled in with what is considered living expenses with all the administrative work and put on auto-payment or, more often than not, paid upfront for the whole year.
Basically, rich people behave like they are companies.
They are the CEO, setting the direction for their lives and focusing on the most important aspects, and then you have your executive suite that makes sure things run the way they’re supposed to.
This leaves them disconnected from most people, as they do not realize the anxiety of having a recurring payment eat up a good chunk of your income on a consistent basis.
6
The rich don’t take calls
For rich people, when something breaks, the only thing they experience is the inconvenience of having to replace the item or the fact that they might not be able to use it at the moment.
They do not experience the feeling of anxiety associated with the fact that if something is a little more expensive, they might not be able to afford to repair it and will be left without it.
This is why rich people don’t put a case over their iPhones or have a screen protector.
For them, these kinds of goods are utilitarian, not status symbols like they are for poor people.
7
The rich don’t have “breaking” anxiety
In the fast-paced world, we live in, time management and productivity have become critical skills for success.
Organizing your day with a to-do list or a planner is a powerful tool to take charge of your schedule and harness your time effectively.
It’s like having a compass to navigate through the vast sea of responsibilities and commitments, ensuring you stay on course toward your goals.
Creating a to-do list or using a planner is more than just scribbling down tasks randomly.
It is a deliberate exercise in setting priorities and allocating your precious time wisely. And these are a must for cultivating a growth mindset.
As you write down your tasks, you can assess their importance and urgency, helping you determine which ones deserve immediate attention and which ones can be scheduled for later.
8
Go to a laundromat
Most people who were born into wealth have never gone to a laundromat in their lives, because they either had staff or, at the bare minimum, owned a washing machine.
Also: laundromats are more of a US thing; we feel like, although you can find them here and there, it’s not that common to take your clothes out of the house to wash them.
What the rich do use more of are dry cleaning services.
You wear a dress or a suit; it gets put in the worn pile, and later you get it back folded and cleaned.
Speaking of clothes: You can tell if someone is rich by whether or not they use cleaning services at hotels.
The hotel offers to wash your clothes for you, but there’s something about paying a little bit more for a service you usually do yourself for free that keeps everyone else from doing it.
9
Micro-management of funds
When you’re rich, you don’t have to do the financial gymnastics associated with spreading $150 to cover the rest of the week.
When you’re not rich, there’s an entire micro-economy happening around you where this person owes you $75, so you know you have that coming in on Thursday; if you don’t go out this weekend, you should be ok until Wednesday when you get your next paycheck.
If you know, you know.
Rich people don’t have to do that. They don’t start a free trial and immediately cancel it.
Or create multiple emails just so they can get more free trials.
They do not read books as scanned PDFs on a monitor when the actual book is just $15.
This idea of micromanaging or caring about small purchases is something other than what they concern themselves with. You pay what you want because you want it now.
Of course, this wouldn’t be possible if you didn’t know a lot more money is always coming in, which brings us to the next point:
10
Be the expert in order to make more money
It’s true what they say: it’s easier to make money when you have money, especially when you have A LOT of money. Why?
There’s a difference in approach:
To get rich, you take a lot of risks with a little bit of money!
When you are rich, you take very little risk with a lot of money!
If you have money, you can make fairly safe investments over and over again and just spend the interest.
You also have wealth managers who are looking for opportunities on your behalf.
And usually, it’s creative plays that poor people don’t know anything about.
What common people do for pleasure, rich people do for profit. Here’s how that works:
Common people buy a bag as a fashion accessory or for utility purposes.
Rich women buy Hermes bags that double in value the second they walk out of the store and keep increasing in value over time.
It’s the same with Art.
Most poor people think the rich buy art in order to launder money or to flex on their other rich friends, but if you look more carefully, art has been one of the vehicles that rich people consistently use to build even more wealth because, on average, it outperforms other popular investments like real estate or the S&P500.
Art investments
As we said, you don’t have to be an art expert to make money in art.
What rich people do is join other private investors with a verified track record and enjoy the ride.
In the past, you had to be a millionaire and know someone on the inside to take advantage of returns in the art market, but not anymore.
Masterworks is a platform that allows anyone to invest in art.
They find and purchase blue-chip art that they believe will appreciate in value. They split the ownership of each painting into shares, like the stock market does with companies.
As an investor, you can invest in those shares.
Once the painting is sold, the profits are distributed to the investors.
Their last 15 sales all returned profits to their investors:
Masterworks Annualized Track Record
$10,000 invested in Bansky or Condo would’ve made you over $3000 in profit.
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11
Take a second job
Rich people get jobs for experience or to get an inside look at how things happen, unlike most people who need them for survival.
This means there are no incentives or pressures put on your lifestyle where you would need a second job.
So they don’t have to deal with the struggle of juggling the attitudes of bosses, coworkers, and so many customers.
They don’t know what it’s like to rush from one job to the next or to get the night shift to supplement your income.
12
Have to choose between essential items
When you’re rich, you just get both.
There’s no such thing as “Do I pay the phone bill or walk to work”.
The idea that you would still need something but not be able to afford it is alien. We’re talking about things that you actually need, not things you simply want.
- If you need an outfit for an event, you just buy it.
- If it’s really expensive and you don’t see yourself ever needing it again, you rent it.
- If you’re really rich and have influence, they’ll give it to you for free just so that people see you wearing it.
13
Maintenance or refills
Rich people don’t take their cars for maintenance, waiting while the mechanic checks everything and comes up with an estimate.
They’ve got insurance, they’re fully covered, and someone comes, takes their car, and brings it back. They don’t have to lift a finger.
If you’re wealthy, you personally never even stop for gas.
There are services that come and refill your car with gas, wherever your car is. It’s the same with getting it cleaned.
You just woke up, and the car is sparkling in the garage.
This happens with lawn work, home maintenance, and everything else that most people do by hand.
You just price it all into the lifetime cost of ownership.
14
Worry about survival if they quit their job
They’re not chained to a workplace.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, meaning they simply cannot afford to quit their jobs or be fired.
That means they will put up with more and work longer hours if they have to because they need the job.
Rich people don’t need the job, so if anything is shady in terms of unfair treatment, they bounce.
15
Deal with Travel limitations or restrictions on movement
Rich people don’t have to worry about a visa.
Almost every country allows rich individuals to purchase a passport through what is called a golden visa program.
Basically, you make an investment in the country somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000, and they give you a passport.
Rich people don’t change their lives according to travel windows because they’re not waiting for a deal on airplane tickets.
If they need to fly out on Friday, they buy whatever ticket is available that gets them there the fastest.
You need to get off an island because a hurricane is coming, or your child is sick and you need to get home. You pay $25,000 for the jet, and you’re out of there within the hour.
While for common people, the cost of travel is a part of the budget, strictly from a movement perspective, rich people don’t care about it, mostly because travel is a deductible expense, so their business pays for it.
And since you took the time to read until the end, there’s a bonus waiting for you:
Bonus
They have access to the most efficient and effective advice
Rich people can afford high-level therapists.
They can also afford nutritionists, personal trainers, and yoga instructors.
They can go to relationship coaches and personal brand experts to improve their image.
When it comes to their professional lives, they have performance coaches who keep them not only on track but also challenge them to consistently evolve.
This entire human infrastructure costs them over $100,000 per year.
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So far, we’ve spent close to 1 million dollars on content and the development of a platform that will have the largest transformational impact on your life. For only $99 per year, you can evolve at the same pace that ultra-rich people do.
We could honestly charge a $10,000 membership fee, and the value you get out of it would’ve been worth it. But we know what it is like to start at the bottom.
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These have been 15 things the rich don’t have to do. Now that you just had a small taste of what life looks like for the rich, use that motivation to keep yourself moving. See you next time!
