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Dream, believe, do nothing, succeed. Rinehart’s children make the big league
19 Mar 2018
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
Gina Rinehart and daughter Ginia
“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain – do something to make more money yourself.”
Inspirational words from Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart, in Australian Resources and Investment magazine.
Rinehart’s rags to riches story is rarely appreciated enough – let alone her success in imbuing her four children with the same absurd talent and firm work ethic.
John, Bianca, Hope and Ginia have all recently broken into the Forbes world billionaire rankings, with estimated fortunes of $1.7 billion each. I offer them my heartfelt congratulations – we can all learn something from the gritty struggle of this family and their mental fortitude in the face of adversity.
According to William Finnegan, writing in 2013 in the New Yorker, “When [Gina] was old enough to drive, Lang [Hancock, her father] is said to have had ten new cars brought to her school for her to choose among”.
But Gina’s story really started when she dropped out of her studies at the University of Sydney to “work” at Lang’s humble iron ore corporation.
Following his awfully tragic death, underdog Gina inherited a modest 76.6 percent share of Hancock Prospecting. Back then, with a reported personal wealth of $75 million, things weren’t looking so bright.
But our Gina never stopped dreaming. With her nose to the grindstone, her big break came when the iron ore boom hit in the early 2000s, making her a billionaire. Consider that glass ceiling shattered! However, Gina has never been in mining purely for personal gain; she sees it as her philanthropic duty to the world, as expressed in one of her poetic works published by Business Insider:
“The world’s poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate.
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late.”
Her four recent billionaire children are also celebrated for their dedicated perseverance and noble dispositions. In 2011, John, Bianca and Hope began a troublesome and lengthy legal battle to remove their mother as trustee of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust.
Despite being multi-millionaires prior to the court proceedings, through thick and thin they doggedly fought the courts and their own family for the millions they rightfully deserved. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
The Rinehart-Hancock fearsome family light the way for us all. It’s about nurturing that winners’ mindset and holding onto the dream that one day, if you work hard enough, you too could inherit an iron ore empire.
Taking Sides 
I’ve got the nooses! Anyone else game?!
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I’m in the garage, designing a portable gantry . . .
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It’s an idea that I think might catch on, and if I collect a tiny royalty, just think of the possibilities . . .
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Perfecto!
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How rope is made, if you ain’t got any:
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Thanks! A new hobby is born!
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… or a new industry. Rope for, well, you know . . .
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Note that “workers” are required. Perhaps these rope-walkers are billionaires?
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Damn them rope-walkers!
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It’s not their fault, Sojourner. They inherited their wealth.
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I know, just like me!
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Actually, Norm, I have this series on Hulu, and have seen how rope was made before. I thought, in regards to these billionaires, I would use the rope my father always threatened me with. Yes, Norm, I was even a worse child than an old man!;-)
“Dang me, Dang me, they oughta take a rope and hang me…”
I gotta million of ’em!
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A worse child than an old man! Cripes, Sojourner! No wonder your old man wanted to hang you, and that people over the years handed you a million ropes with which to go and hang yourself!
Well, if only on your say so, you at least managed to improve yourself some, if not now being exactly what anyone might rightly describe as placid, now only slightly surly all of the time.
Glad, then, that I met you old and not young, Sojourner. The inexplicably angry — and I have known many — have always left me a bit perplexed, not to mention somewhat fearful.
But I will take you at your word, that having ripened into this time of obvious pre-senility in your seniority, you have really come into your own, having found good and solid reasons, reasons like Gina, not merely to be cantankerous, but righteously so. In the end, it all worked out. Don’t get me wrong: you still do scare me, but not in a perplexing sort of way.
I guess it’s true what they say, then, that some are born angry, and others have it thrust upon them.
You were born impassioned, Sojourner. You only needed to find your reason. Fortunately, in this world, such as it is, it wasn’t too hard to find.
Hang ’em high! It ain’t as if you don’t have the rope.
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With your permission, I will use this as the opening either to my memoirs or eulogy! I am touche so deeply that it is hard to express my gratitude!
Hell, Norm, I scare myself, every time I look in the mirror!
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No need to thank me, Sojourner. Glad to oblige.
And about the mirror, I know exactly what you mean. I don’t need Netflix to entertain myself with horror.
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That’s it, Norm. Getting old is a bitch !
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Hold everything! Tubularsock can not believe that the two of you can’t see the true value of true hard work and from that the natural automatic result …… riches!
As an example, Tubularsock started out as a poor black child ( much like Steve Martin) and with really hard work and money given Tubularsock from his trillion dollar uncle, Tubularsock is where he is today!
Hard work pays off you loafers!
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I couldn’t be bothered trying to ingratiate myself into the good graces of my relatives, or to fight them for what is rightfully mine, that is to say, for their trillions, Tubes.
My wife works for the both of us — really, the four of us, since we do have twins who at 24 are still very dependent on us, though they do have part-time jobs paying $10 CAD/ hour at a grocery store, the two of them university graduates — and true, it’s barely enough, but it’s enough.
I’m content. Envious of the rich and in particular of my relatives. But on the whole, I’m very content.
I mean, if I were rich and envious, that would just be unseemly.
But here on the edge of my destitution, which is a chosen and deliberate destitution, well, that’s just the right sustenance for any amount of envy. And a just motivation, too, for making rope, if rope making is your yen, but your rope-making urge is really inexplicable, rooted, so to speak, in the very fabric of your DNA . . .
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“And a just motivation, too, for making rope, if rope making is your yen, but your rope-making urge is really inexplicable, rooted, so to speak, in the very fabric of your DNA . . .”
Ain’t it the truth, Norm! Ain’t it the truth!
Yes, your college educated twins working at a ‘job’ far beneath their skills, while this rich bitch acts magnanimous, is enough to keep me producing rope by the miles.
But then again, that’s just cantankerous me!
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“Cantankerous by the Mile.” That should be the new logo for the business I propose we go into. And to instantly dispel any confusion about what our business will be about, we could have in neon a replica of this “.gif” hanging over the front door of our establishment, a sign that both signals purpose and instructs prospective buyers at the same time:
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Well, my father always used to say to my mother, in regards to me, “Give him enough rope, Honey, and he’ll hang himself!”
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Oh shit! Look what showed up, Norm, a member of Trump’s cabinet. Or is the Tube in one of Trump’s cabinets? Either way, here he is!
I scoff at your remarks, Tubular, your capitalist pig slips are showing !
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Gina Tubes! Probably has an unsigned agreement with President Dennison.
And so nauseatingly smug and sanctimonious that I can’t help but feel exactly the same amount of smugness and sanctimoniousness back at ’em.
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Yeah! What he said!
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That’s enough, Sojourner. You are skewing my stats. I’m getting so many hits on this post that it’s got me excited. But when I look at the number of visitors, it’s one guy from the U.S.
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Same here, only the guy is from Canada! Still laughing!
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Oh, I get it. You are working for the other side, and have launched a “distributed denial of service” attack!
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I never thought of that! Damn!
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Yeah, right!
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Just ran across this, it’s a major reason for cantankerousness:
America: The Country That Never Was!
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Yup. Lot’s of good rationalizations, here, for what is really just congenital among the lower classes who like to wallow in their envy, defeatism, and sloth.
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Yes, I know. I just want to be insanely rich, is that too much to ask?
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One thing I don’t understand, Tubes, is how you get from starting out as a poor black child to this:
Tubularsock’s mug shot (a.k.a. Gina Tubes, Dan Somethingorother)
I didn’t major in biology, but something tells me there is something fishy about your story . . . I mean, “white and pointy headed?”
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This is not all that is “fishy”, when it comes to the Tube!
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My main reaction to this article is profound nausea
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Yep. Kinda like the effect that Dominic Lee had on me when I heard him speak of the necessity and rectitude of not helping the destitute seniors of Hong Kong, that they might learn from a lifetime of profligacy and repent of their enduring improvidence, despite having worked hard their entire lives, albeit apparently not nearly hard enough.
But I guess that when you are as rich as the likes of Gina or her children, it’s kinda hard not to believe you are divinely ordained and very much entitled to every single penny to which you hold title, all of it the fruit of your hard work and perseverance, crowned with a touch of your god-given genius — the egotism of an entire class perfectly epitomized by Lily Campbell.
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