Why Bill Gates Won’t Let His Daughter Marry With A Poor Guy?

Mümin Ahmedoğlu
2 min readNov 5, 2021

In an investment and finance conference in the United States a few years ago; Bill Gates was one of the speakers, and during the question-and-answer time, Someone asked a question that made everyone laugh.

The question was if he, the world’s richest man, could accept his daughter marrying a poor man. Bill Gates’s response threw my life into disarray;

Bill’s response was as follows: “First and foremost, you must understand that wealth does not equal a large bank account!”

The ability to create wealth is the most critical aspect of wealth.

A person wins the lottery or the lotto, for example. Despite winning $100 million, he is not a wealthy guy: he is a poor man with a lot of money, which is why 90% of lottery winners return to poverty after five years.

Some wealthy individuals lack financial resources. Like most entrepreneurs.

Even if they don’t have money, they are already on the road to wealth because they are honing their financial intelligence, which is wealth.

What distinguishes the wealthy from the poor?

It’s as simple as this: the wealthy may die to become…

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Mümin Ahmedoğlu

Writing about Innovation & Technology Management & Policy | Project Management | Turkey | Germany