The Wealthy Janitor
The Wealthy Janitor
How Regular People Actually Get Rich
The Billion-Dollar Mistake
May 2011, Ontario, Canada
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I was hobby farming, barely making ends meet. A school custodian named Sam told me he’d just bought $500 worth of Bitcoin at $1.50 each.
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I went home and researched it. CNN said it was a scam. Too risky. A bubble waiting to burst. I passed.
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Sam bought anyway. He held through a 93% crash. He held through media panic. He held when everyone said he was crazy.
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Today, Sam has $8 million. I have a story about the most expensive lesson I’ve ever learned.
Same opportunity. Different results. What was the difference?
Not intelligence. Not income. Not luck. It was psychology. Sam thought like a wealth builder. I thought like everyone else.
What You’ll Learn
The 7-Step Framework Sam Used (That I Ignored)
- How to spot asymmetric opportunities (massive upside, limited downside)
- The holding mindset—why Sam held and I would have panic-sold
- How to evaluate risk like an investor, not a consumer
- The psychological difference between wealth builders and everyone else
- Why your scarcity programming keeps you broke (and how to fix it)
- The compound decision system—how small choices create exponential outcomes
- How regular people with regular jobs actually get rich
- The exact framework to apply to your next financial decision
This isn’t about Bitcoin. It’s about the psychology that separates wealth builders from everyone else.
The 7-Step Wealthy Janitor Framework
The exact system Sam used—and you can use for any financial decision
Spot the Asymmetry
How to identify opportunities where potential upside massively outweighs downside risk
Size the Bet
How much to risk based on confidence level and potential return
Ignore the Noise
How to filter out media panic and emotional reactions from others
Hold Through Volatility
The psychological tools to stay committed when everyone else panics
Trust the Thesis
How to evaluate fundamental value vs. short-term price movements
Compound the Wins
What to do after one bet works—how to build on success without getting reckless
Repeat Systematically
How to turn one-time luck into repeatable wealth-building system
“I used this framework to evaluate a business opportunity. Made $340K in 18 months. This isn’t just about Bitcoin—it’s about thinking differently.”
Who This Book Is For
The Opportunity Misser
You’ve passed on opportunities you later regretted. You want to understand why—and stop doing it.
The Risk-Averse
You play it safe because you think that’s smart. You need to learn calculated risk vs. recklessness.
The Panic Seller
You buy high, sell low, and repeat. You need the holding mindset that keeps wealth builders steady.
The Pattern Seeker
You want a repeatable system, not one-time luck. You’re ready for a framework that works across opportunities.
This book is NOT for: People looking for crypto tips or get-rich-quick schemes. This is about psychology, not speculation.
What Makes This Different
Real Story, Real Numbers
Not hypothetical. This actually happened. Sam made $8M. I lost $1B in potential gains.
Honest About Failure
Most authors hide their mistakes. This book IS the mistake—and what it taught me.
Repeatable Framework
Not about Bitcoin specifically—about the decision system that works for any opportunity.
“Best investment book I’ve read. Not because it taught me about crypto—because it taught me how to think about risk and opportunity.”
— David M.
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About Rich Abbott
Rich Abbott made the most expensive mistake of his life in May 2011. He had the same information, the same opportunity, and the same $500 as Sam the school custodian.
But Rich passed. Sam bought. Today, Sam has $8 million. Rich has a billion-dollar lesson.
That mistake forced Rich to spend the next decade studying the psychology of wealth—not strategies or tactics, but the actual thinking patterns that separate wealth builders from everyone else.
The Wealthy Janitor is that story. The mistake, the lesson, and the framework Rich extracted from it—a system anyone can use to make better financial decisions.