Bad day

[Kevin Slater]

 

Kevin Slater

[bigvalboy]

I'm not getting an image...sorry.

[Kevin Slater]

I'm not getting an image...sorry.

 

Aargh.

 

It was just a sign saying "if you're having a bad day, consider that on this day in 1976 Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800. Today it would be worth $58,065,210,000."

 

Kevin Slater

[bigvalboy]

Aargh.

 

It was just a sign saying "if you're having a bad day, consider that on this day in 1976 Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800. Today it would be worth $58,065,210,000."

 

Kevin Slater

 

Now that is a shocking statistic....

[marylander1940]

Aargh.

 

It was just a sign saying "if you're having a bad day, consider that on this day in 1976 Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800. Today it would be worth $58,065,210,000."

 

Kevin Slater

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne

 

Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is a retired American electronics industry worker. He co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, providing administrative oversight for the new venture. He soon, however, sold his share of the new company for US$800, and later accepted US$1,500 to forfeit any claims against Apple.

[whipped guy]

Well my dad sold all his shares in Texas Instruments back in the day because his broker told him that the company was going absolutely nowhere.

 

That could have resulted in quite an inheritance.

 

It is also the main reason that I'm not a Sugar Daddy today...

[+ azdr0710]

back in the 1950s, my mother was a 20-something stewardess for a then-major airline and, occasionally, would ask prosperous-looking and friendly passengers for stock tips and investment advice....she said one time somebody suggested she look into this new company called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.....unfortunately, she didn't pursue the advice

[Zman]

In a similar vein, pretty much anybody who was using the internet in the early 90s (or earlier) has had this "only-if-I-had-grabbed-a-piece-before-the-dot-com-boom-Id-be-a-millionaire" regret. I know I do . The dot com bubble helped me change into a better career though so I guess I got a little bitty piece of it.

[sincitymix]

back in the 1950s, my mother was a 20-something stewardess for a then-major airline and, occasionally, would ask prosperous-looking and friendly passengers for stock tips and investment advice....she said one time somebody suggested she look into this new company called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.....unfortunately, she didn't pursue the advice

 

Yeah, I knew a nice very elderly lady who had the chance to buy IBM stock when it was getting started... everyone told her.. There isn't any money in computers. it wont last, its a fad. computers are way to expensive for anyone to ever own!

Its a shame hindsight is 20/20

[+ sync]

In the 1960's I was approached to invest in the fast food industry.

 

My reaction then: Fast food?! Hah!!

My reaction now: Boo hoo!

[rvwnsd]

In the 1960's I was approached to invest in the fast food industry.

 

My reaction then: Fast food?! Hah!!

My reaction now: Boo hoo!

 

Think of it this way: Thanks to you, one one hundredth of a child is not obese.

[Guest Starbuck]

Well my dad sold all his shares in Texas Instruments back in the day because his broker told him that the company was going absolutely nowhere.

 

That could have resulted in quite an inheritance.

 

It is also the main reason that I'm not a Sugar Daddy today...

 

A Sugar Daddy with a whip! ... what's that expression? ... spoil the child, but don't spare the rod? ... something like that ...

[whipped guy]

A Sugar Daddy with a whip! ... what's that expression? ... spoil the child, but don't spare the rod? ... something like that ...

Either that or a whipped Sugar Daddy! Or something like that! I am quite versitile at least when it comes to whips, floggers, rods, and a few other accoutrements!

[+ Charlie]

A number of years ago, a close friend of mine had a cousin who worked in pharmaceutical research. He advised her to invest in his company, because he was working on a product that he assured her was going to be a game-changer. She didn't believe him, so she bought only a few token shares to please him. The product was later marketed as Viagra.

[+ Gar1eth]

My parents were told to buy Apple right before it tanked in the '80's. They did and as Apple was down for years-we used to snicker at them. They then got rid of the stock before Apple's resurrection. Boy did us jokesters feel chagrined.

 

Another time the egg was on our face although not financially-in 1978 or 79 my younger cousin came visiting over the Christmas Holidays for Hanukkah (my parents ended up getting the flu while my cousin and I stayed healthy, but that's another story. ). So my aunt had packed presents for my cousin to open on Hanukkah. One of the wrapped presents had the distinctive shape of an album.

 

On Hanukkah my cousin opened up the album. There was a woman's head and a car part on the cover. It looked strange. My cousin and I were not big music aficionados. But even so, we had never heard of the group, and the album artwork was strange.

 

We called my aunt to discuss/thank her for presents-and my cousin and I are laughing (at her) about this album from a group neither of us had ever heard of while on the phone. Now my aunt didn't know anything about popular music. She had gone into a record store and asked for advice. The salesperson told her the group was going to be big.

 

My cousin I continued to laugh for awhile that night. Possibly some of you listening to popular music in the late 70's to mid 80's might recognize this little-known band and its debut album.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/The_Cars_-_The_Cars.jpg

 

Gman