Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

🤑 How I spend my MILLIONS 🏎️🛳️ #mikeandes #wealth #millionairelifestyle

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Andes reflects on wealth and appearances, arguing that flashy displays often signal shallowness while genuinely wealthy people value depth and stability. He recounts early years running Augusta Lawn Care—driving company vehicles, later owning modest cars (Honda Civic, then Honda Accord)—and notes that creating a flashy lifestyle would cost a small fraction of business revenues (he estimates under 1%) or roughly $100–$120k/year, but that such displays do not impress the most successful people.

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"The first six to seven years of owning Augusta Lawn Care"

He said he drove a company vehicle, then ‘a couple years ago I got a Honda Civic’ and now drives a Honda Accord.

He estimated "less than 1% of all the revenues from the businesses".

He said "for less than like, 100, $120,000 a year" (quoted phrasing).

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People that make all the noise and have fancy things, they actually don't have a lot of depth to them. They're usually shallow and they make a bunch of noise, but they're shallow. If you look out at a river that was 50, 60ft deep, it's really still and it just moves slowly. The first six to seven years of owning Augusta Lawn Care, like, I just drove a company vehicle and a couple years ago I got a Honda Civic and now I drive a Honda Accord. It's because, like, look, for less than 1% of all the revenues from the businesses, I could have the appearance of a very flashy lifestyle. I could buy a very fancy sports car and rent out a very nice penthouse. For less than like, 100, $120,000 a year, you can have that lifestyle to really wealthy, rich people who have been really successful, that does not impress them. And the type of people they want to be around are usually the people with depth and on the top, they're just stable.