Making $300,000 over the long term is relatively easy.

However, if you condense the timespan to 6 months, which I will categorize as “quickly” then things become very tricky.

As your timeline condenses, the levels of risk and/or illicit activities goes up. That is because you always have to sacrifice something in order to make large sums of money. I would not recommend anyone to try and do this because it will inevitebly lead to a bad outcome. But, for exercise let’s see how this could work:

The Most Obvious Route is Gambling. Sports gambling is legal in New York or Nevada. If you start with a principle amount of $50,000 then you need to go all in twice and then wager $100,000 on your third bet. That would give you $300,000 minus taxes. Your odds of success are Less than 33% in this scenario.

The Second Method that comes to mind is OnlyFans. There are a good amount of stories where people have made more than $300,000 in merely months after starting an onlyfans. The problem here is that you are trading your dignity and privacy for money. Additionally, there is no long term career skill building.

What You Should Actually Do:

There should never be a scenario where you need $300,000 in cash quickly. If you actually need that much money, you should take out a small business loan or a mortgage on a house. If you are simply looking to aquire $300,000 for the sake of having it, then there are far more productive ways to get it. But none of them come ‘quickly’.