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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

According to billionaires, he’ll easily return to his former glory by pulling himself up on those massive bootstraps we should all apparently be using.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Fun trivia... Pulling yourself up from your bootstraps is impossible and the phrase came from an 1800s physics textbook that asked why a person can't pull themselves up that way.

It somehow got twisted to mean that it should be possible with hard work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

“If that shit worked for the Lorax, it’ll work for you!”

  • Jeff Bezos maybe
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