When people come to me for money advice they generally fall into one of two categories: The first category is the twenty something year old who’s hungry for success. Bright-eyed and bushy tailed, these folks are energetic and they soak up knowledge given to them like a sponge. They want to learn and they meticulously […]
Whenever someone asks me for financial advice, I invariably get around to asking them an important question. It’s this…when was the last time you calculated your net worth and how often do you calculate it? Normally, I get something of a roundabout, politician type of answer back. Something like, “I know how much I’m worth. […]
Tired of being jolted awake at 5:30am by an alarm clock, fighting traffic for over an hour, just to get to a job that you hate and then spend your days making someone else rich? Sick of having to face Draconian corporate world crap such as layoffs, silly popularity contests, musical chairs, insane office politics […]
Everyone takes a different road to financial success. Some come to wealth via entrepreneurship. Others get there from investing in real estate or in stocks. Regardless of the different paths taken to wealth, once people achieve financial success they mostly follow the same pattern. Nearly everyone who becomes wealthy takes the same very next step… […]
Charles Earl Boles, also known as Black Bart, was an English-born outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after a couple of his robberies. Often called “Charley” by his friends, he was considered a “gentleman bandit”, with a reputation for style and sophistication. He was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to […]
How do you get to be different financially? It begins with thinking different. “Well, yeah!”, some of you may be saying right about now. But here’s the question… If thinking different can make such a positive impact, why don’t more people spend more time doing it? Researchers at Harvard Medical School offer one compelling answer. […]
Got a hypothetical question for you today. Let’s say that you live in proximity to an active volcano. Hey, maybe it’s on a cool island! The problem with island life is that the darn volcano erupts…with all too regularity. Mount Spewsonus rains ash and pours lava about once every 10 years. You and your neighbors […]
If you’re not familiar with value investing, it’s the bottoms-up style of investing used by many of the world’s greatest investors and the very investing method used by the greatest investor of all time – Warren Buffett. In short, the value investor looks to buy shares in quality companies that are selling below their intrinsic […]
