841 - DIE WITH ZERO! with Bill Perkins (Re-Release).
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:12.8 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:16.0 | I've always wondered if you made a good amount of money. |
| 0:20.1 | Did you leave your kids all of the money, some of the money, none of the money, and it's |
| 0:27.4 | confusing because you love your kids and it's not just that also. |
| 0:33.2 | Should you die with zero as my good friend Bill Perkins, who's made a bunch of money wrote |
| 0:38.1 | a book about it, wrote a book called Die With Zero. |
| 0:41.8 | I wonder about that too because obviously you can't die with zero because what if you |
| 0:47.2 | lived one more day than how would you support yourself. |
| 0:51.8 | I get the idea of spending money down like what are you saving the money for? |
| 0:56.0 | What did you make the money for if you were never going to spend it? |
| 0:58.7 | What you could say while I was making it for my kids or making it for charity. |
| 1:02.7 | I'll tell you one story. |
| 1:04.1 | I was once friends with a very good friend with the son of a well-known famous billionaire |
| 1:10.2 | and he needed money one time. |
| 1:14.0 | He wanted to buy a stock and we were standing in his broker's office. |
| 1:17.5 | It happened to be my broker as well. |
| 1:20.4 | He had a guy in his trust allowance yet and he asked me if he could borrow some money. |
| 1:27.5 | So I said sure no problem. |
| 1:28.8 | So the broker paid for the stock he wanted to buy out of my account. |
| 1:32.6 | For the next three or four years I was always asking, hey can I have that money back? |
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