Wrong, all you need is a lot of notes. Its no secret that some guys have 50+ or in the case of the dev hundreds of masternodes. The more nodes you have the faster you can set up another one. As you get more and more notes time needed to get another note gets shorter with every masternote, this only accelerates until totally centralized.
Having 1 or 2 notes gets you nowhere. Why would you spent 6K USD when some other guy puts his feet up and does nothing for a little while and got his note for free.