By 1989, she was the richest woman on TV.
By 1995, a net-worth of $340 million made her the only black to rank among the 400 richest Americans.
From 2004 to 2007, she towered as the World’s only truly black billionaire (Blarabs and Blasians don’t count if they’re less than 50% sub-Saharan).
And then last month Oprah went where few billionaires of any race get to go. Bloomberg’s list of the 500 richest people on the planet, thanks to soaring Weight Watchers stock.
Like Warren Buffett, Oprah has the self-awareness to only invest in what she understands and no one understands the psychology of American dieters better than Oprah.
When Donald Trump was on Oprah’s syndicated show years ago, he praised her for all the money she made in real-estate. Other people in Trump’s social circle were gossiping about all the money Oprah was blowing on houses, saying what the hell is she doing, but Oprah’s return on investment shut them all up, Trump noted.
“God’s not making anymore land,” said Oprah, explaining her common sense investment strategy.
Perhaps one of the secrets to Oprah’s success is she’s about as smart as a person can be without being a nerd. Americans with IQs more than 3 standard deviations below the white mean tend to have organic conditions like Down Syndrome. Americans with IQs more than 3 standard deviations above the white mean tend to be nerds. Of course many organics will have IQs much higher than 55, and most nerds have IQs way lower than 145, but roughly speaking, biological normality ranges from 55 to 145. There’s no evidence that any U.S. president in the last 200 years has been above 150 (white norms) and that makes sense because presidents should look and sound like the people they govern, and nerds look and sound very different.
So should Oprah run for President? That was the question the World was asking after she gave one of the best speeches of the 21st century at the 2018 Golden Globes. Returning to the cover of Vogue magazine 20 years after she appeared in 1998, she was asked that very question.
“In that political structure –- all the non-truths, the bulls–t, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on –- I feel like I could not exist,” Oprah stated. “I would not be able to do it. It’s not a clean business.”
Is Oprah too low on psychopathy to run for president? Indeed one reason Oprah made a better talk show host than a news woman is talk show hosts are allowed to show emotion while journalists should be objective. We want our journalists to be psychopathic enough that they can remain detached, though not so psychopathic that they fabricate the news.
Because Oprah’s smarter than most billionaires and power elites, she didn’t need to be a borderline psychopath to achieve such wealth and influence. On the other hand, Oprah’s one of the best actors in Hollywood, so her low psychopathy could be shtick.
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Pumpkin Person 
Oprah wouldn’t exist, even in Africa. Only in a danish controlled colony could that happen.
She could have been just as rich in Africa. Not as influential though, because Africa has much less influence than the U.S.
No, you don’t know Africa. In the USA, you can make a lot of money by being a talk show host, in most African countries, this is just impossible to make money by being a simple talk show host.
If you want to be a billionaire in Africa, you have 2 options :
1. Being in the government
2. By exploiting resources
Case in point :
Africa has 2 female $ billionaires.
1 made her money when she got an oil block from the Govt, and the other when she got the national oil company to run from her father.
This is one of the reason why Africa is poor. The rich don’t make their money in the private sector producing a commodity or service but by going into government to plunder the state.
Oprah is the devil.
If I had 340million I would become an independent researcher or just a lazy slacker.
That’s cause you’re probably a nerd. The material ambitions of nerds are satisfied very easily so prior to bill gates, non-nerds had a monopoly on wealth. They still have a monopoly in politics.
Very vicious comment from Pumpkin.
i would give all my money to the klan.
Oprah is an actor. Her demographic audience don’t know she’s not acting. Big part of how she made her money. Not that she is not honest and all that. (a clean business)
Theres a clip of Trump talking about Oprah being his VP pick in 1999 with Larry King. Extraordinary.
In the event he was saddled by the GOPe with Mike Pence. Apparently trump really wanted Chris Christie but for some reason the establishment dont like Christie.
Apparently Trumpy has ADD according to that book I read a while back. Now TYT i saying it, prob based on that book.
I’d believe it.
That would explain how someone who talks like a moron can behave like a political genius. His ADD makes him seem way dumber than he is.
ADD doesn’t exist. it was invented to sell two things…
1. amphetamines.
2. peace of mind to parents who can’t accept their child is as dumb as oprah.
HAHAHhHA…HAHAHHAH!
But aren’t amphetamines wonderful? Pharmaceutical companies should just be honest and admit ADD is totally made up. But still sell the pills.
ADD just seems like a person not wanting to pay attention to anything they don’t feel like paying attention to. There should be a ‘mental pain threshold’ test or something to assess how much anguish it causes an ‘ADD sufferer’ to sit through what they believe are boring lectures or tasks vs. the average individual. It’d be as scientific as anything used to assess it now.
(2) seems suspect, unless muggy believes that, in a land where the entire society places high value on ‘elfology’ and everyone must learn the ins and outs of ‘elfology,’ the person who finds elfology boring or irrelevant to his daily life and doesn’t want to waste life paying attention to it is just…dumb.
1. Jimmy Carter likely had an IQ in excess of 150. He was a nuclear engineer, after all.
2. Trump does not talk like a moron. He uses direct, declarative statements that convey his intended meaning in a brief, if often blunt, manner. Rush Limbaugh described it as “”verbal shorthand,” and claimed it was typical of certain people who have to be understood quickly and have a lot of information to convey. I might even go so far as to conjecture that Trump’s frequently being misinterpreted by the media is a result of the 2 standard deviation gap in communication discussed (not quite “debunked”) here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/08/31/myth-30-iq-communication-range/#.W0Nw858pB-E
This could explain why the press corps , comprised of manque novelists and people that slept their way into the job, frequently reacts to what they FEEL Trump says instead of his actual words.