# The First Rule of Making Big Money

What is the first rule of fishing? Go where the fish are.

Therefore, what is the first rule of making big money? Go where the money is.

The same skill priced by boss A is far higher than by boss B—why? Because boss A makes more money himself and is willing to pay a higher price to hire someone skilled in this field who suits his needs. That's all there is to it. It's not necessarily because your skill is significantly better than others.

The same skill applied in this field yields far greater returns than in that field—why? Because there's more money in this field, the money-making effect is stronger. It's that simple. Again, it's not because your skill proficiency has changed.

The environment's influence on us far exceeds our imagination. Or put it this way: the environment's ceiling is the person's ceiling. If Warren Buffett had been born in China, he couldn't have achieved his current investment success. Duan Yongping's investment results weren't achieved from investing in A-shares. In other words, you must be on a line that's already growing rapidly to even talk about "surpassing others." Look at the billionaires on the rich lists who once chose the internet or real estate industries. They expended the same amount of effort in their careers; if they'd chosen other tracks, they might have succeeded too, but never at this level. Whether you succeed depends more on your own qualities. Capable people can succeed anywhere, in any era. But how successful? That depends on the ceiling height of the environment you're in.

I saw news today that Cecilia Cheung announced her relationship with a fitness trainer shared among Emperor Entertainment artists. We often hear about some celebrities and billionaires suddenly getting together with fitness trainers, tennis coaches, agents, assistants, and similar roles—why? Because of frequent contact, there's opportunity for feelings to develop. So who do you contact daily? What status of people would pay for your skills? How much do you charge? What kind of people can afford your fees? This is your "environment," determining what scale of opportunities you might encounter.

So when choosing what industry to enter and what role to play, you should first think about: What's its development path? Where's the ceiling? Who can you contact daily? What level of people can your work create value for?

Want to date a rich woman? Become a celebrity's personal trainer. Want to date an executive? Become an executive assistant. Don't want to date an old boss? Go to emerging industries. Want a harem? Open a modeling or streaming company. Male students wanting high-quality relationships in university? Study liberal arts. Female students wanting high-quality relationships in university? Study science. Want overnight success and to get rich quick? Enter crypto. Want to get scammed? Freeload more cheap tour groups and cheap information.

It's not that once you make the choice, you immediately get what you want. What's the essence? It's density. When the density of something reaches a certain level, probability comes into play. When you're in a place with sufficiently high wealth density, and those you communicate with frequently are all wealthy people, you don't need them to put money in your pocket, you don't need to know in advance "what you should do," you just need to stay there, and gradually you'll find things you can do, money will reach your hands in various forms. Conversely, if you're in a poor remote mountain village surrounded by gossipy relatives, no matter how capable you are personally, no matter how positive and hardworking you are, no matter what you do, there's no way to make money.

This is the key point: make your environment conducive to making money, increase the wealth density around you, shorten the distance between money and people in what you focus on, and big money will come from an angle you never expected. If you don't change your environment, if everyone you contact, everyone online, are workers, farmers, low-level clerks, unemployed drifters, talking about meaningless things every day, then you yourself become part of this environment. Whether it's fun, I don't know, but at least class status is destined to only go down, not up. #Gate13周年全球庆典 $SOL