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Be Responsible To Be Rich

Nour Boustani
5 min readJul 23, 2022

Can you tell the significant difference between most people and rich people? I’m going to make it easy on you. It’s not intelligence, skills, appearance, or their sense of humor.

Many people on Medium are way more intelligent, better looking, have better skills, and talk with a greater sense of humor than most rich people I know, yet still broke. Why is that?

Doesn’t it annoy you when you think you are more intelligent and better looking than someone with a massive belly and looking like an idiot to you, enjoying an expensive meal with their family while eating a small french fries that your girlfriend paid for it?

Yesterday I rented a new apartment and moved somewhere far from the city’s noise; I picked a gorgeous apartment with a beautiful view of Istanbul Bosphorus. It was a little over the budget, but everything has a price tag!

I was excited to tell my friends and family members; I showed them some pictures and invited them to visit the new house; the feedback I got was astonishing.

The people who were wealthy or financially free congratulated me on the new apartment and made funny jokes about my increasing income.

However, the other group, friends I knew a long time ago and still struggling with money, the first words that came out of their mouths were: “this…

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Nour Boustani
Nour Boustani

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