You got me.
In reality, it was an exaggeration..I only buy coffee 2-3 days a week tops. It was more-less the only example I could think of.
Automatic millionaire can be both good and bad. A bad example that comes to mind is as follows;
We used to have this district manager, a really nice, brilliantly smart man. Unfortunately for him (please, forgive the generalization), he had a very jewish mentality. We would need supplies, desperately, to complete a contract, but he wouldn't get them, because the supplies needed wern't on sale.
This was fine in the short term, turning pennies into dollars and dollars into twenties, etc., but killed his reputation in the long run. He lost his job after about three years, and left the company dangling by a thread. Now the managers give us petty cash accounts of $500, and never second guess a purchase. The company picks up new contracts on a monthly basis now, and has turned a net profit for the first time, in years.
Back to this old district manager. He's now retired, and without a doubt is a millionaire. But, because he's adopted this penny pinching mentality, he's stuck in his own world. He doesn't eat out, he doesn't travel, and he most definetly, would never buy a coffee (in fact, he calculated that to drive to work is about $.85, while brewing a pot at home runs at about $1.12, so he would drive to work to get a free coffee, then go home...he came literally for the coffee, didn't say hi to anybody or anything). So, was it worth his savings all along?
Who gives a shit if you have a million in your bank account...chances are, the day you die, is the day your kids buy a Ferrari.
