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Principles of Wealth: #21
When the odds of a particular speculation are extremely long, we refer to it as gambling. And gambling, most sensible people would acknowledge, is a foolish financial activity. Unless, of course, the odds are…
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Success in Life? It’s All About Micro-Culture
There’s a longstanding nature-versus-nurture debate among social psychologists. Wrestling with it doesn’t get you very far, because it’s not a real question. Nature matters. Nurture matters. But what matters…
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Note — October 16, 2018
[Note: I just got back home yesterday, and I’m still playing catch-up. Back to the regular blog format on Thursday… ]
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Note — October 14, 2018
[Note: No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. I won’t have time to do much writing.]
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[Note: No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. I won’t have time to do much writing.]
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Out of Town
[Note: No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. I won’t have time to do much writing.]
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Author Takes Break From Writing For Business Travel
[No new essays from me this week. I’m out of town and will be busy with meetings and business functions. No time to do much writing.]
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Breaking Big: The “Ready-Fire-Aim” Strategy That Took One Company From $8 Million to More Than $1 Billion
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Delray Beach, FL Introduction In 2010, John Wiley published a book I had written several years earlier called Ready, Fire, Aim. Of the 20+ books I’ve written on business and wealth…
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Can You – Should You – Value Knowledge in Dollars and Cents?
Friday, September 28, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - I try to limit my wealth-building and business advice to what I know to be true from experience. That’s because I am skeptical of advice derived solely from…
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That Was Then, This Is Now (but It’s Still About Then)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - South Side High School’s Class of 1968 had its 50th-year reunion last weekend. About 75 of the 300 students in our class attended. I wasn’t going to go. Then I…
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Every Problem Should Have a Simple Solution
Monday, September 24, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - On August 15, I published an essay titled “Growers and Tenders” in which I suggested that there are two kinds of employees. I wrote: This is an exaggeration, but I…
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Elegant Solutions
Saturday, September 22, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - In his book In Pursuit of Elegance, Matthew E. May tells a story about Drachten, a Dutch village that had a serious problem with traffic at its main intersection…
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The Miracle of Compound Knowledge
Thursday, September 20, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - I have a little gift for you. A simple idea that can mean the difference between struggling and being immensely successful. It is a very small idea that will be…
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Collecting: The Best Way to Satisfy Your Inner Material Girl (or Guy)
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - I’m a big fan of rewarding yourself whenever you’ve made significant progress on any of your long-term goals – especially your wealth-building goals. If, say, you…
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Principles of Wealth: #19 of 60
There are two ways that investments can build wealth. One is by the generation of income. The other is through appreciation – an increase in the value of the underlying asset. Certain asset classes are…
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Should I Care Even Less?
Friday, September 14, 2018 Next on My Passion Diet: Economic Theory Delray Beach, FL - Popular philosophy today promotes the idea that a good life is a passionate one, that by caring more we can lead fuller…
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Notes From My Journal — September 10, 2018
Does the SEC Really Give a Crap About Small Investors? Delray Beach, FL- “The private markets are awash in capital these days,” Jay Clayton, Chairman of the SEC, told entrepreneurs and business-school students…
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Get Up, Take a Walk, Extend Your Life
Delray Beach, FL - You don’t have to be a physiologist to understand how unhealthy it is to spend 8 or 10 hours a day sitting on your butt. The stiffness you feel when you get up should be an obvious warning…
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Notes From My Journal — September 8, 2018
Everything Is Going Up New York City- Walking uptown on 8th, from 17th to 41st, we passed through what used to be called Hell’s Kitchen. And we were surprised to see a half-dozen glittering glass skyscrapers…
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A New Word, an Old Peeve New York City- Sitting on the stoop in front of this brownstone, reading a magazine, I come across a word that’s new to me: glanceable. This doesn’t happen often. And when it does…
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An Unavoidable Hazard of Success
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - If you’re smart, hardworking and persistent, you’ve got what it takes to be successful at any career you choose. But as you climb the ladder, you’re likely to face a…
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Is Someone Abusing You? Here’s How to Claim Your Power Almost Instantly
Saturday, April 28, 2018 Delray Beach, FL. - He was the kind of person that leaned into you when he spoke. Poked you in the ribs to emphasize his enthusiasm and never laughed at your jokes. When he met K for…
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Swarm Intelligence and Free Enterprise
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - Scientists use the term “swarm intelligence” to describe how relatively dumb animals can do amazingly smart things. Termites, for example, have nearly nonexistent…
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How to Fix Your Business in Seven Days
Saturday, April 21, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - Your business is stuck. Or maybe it’s you. It needs something to get out of its rut and on to another level. What to do? How about a 7-day Gordon Ramsey redo? Have…
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Net Investible Wealth
Saturday, April 21, 2018 Delray Beach, FL - Principles of Wealth: #14 of 61 Income is an important factor in the acquisition of wealth, but it is not a measure of it. Nor are expensive possessions. The only…
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The True Cost of Buying
Saturday, April 14, 2018 Principles of Wealth: #13 of 61 Delray Beach, FL - We buy financial products and services because we believe they will make us richer. But we should never forget that the purchase…
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One Thing & Another — April 7, 2018
Word for the Wise Leonine (LEE-uh-nine) = of or relating to a lion. Example as used by Sax Rohmer in the 1915 crime novel The Yellow Claw: “In the leonine eyes looking into hers gleamed the light of admiration…
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One Thing & Another — March 31, 2018
Word for the Wise Preternatural (prih-tur-NATCH-uh-rul) – existing outside of nature; extraordinary. Example from George Will: “Beyond his preternatural affability, there is some acid and some steel.”…
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One Thing & Another — March 24, 2018
Word for the Wise Claque (KLAK) – a group hired to applaud; a group of sycophants. Example as used by Charles P. Pierce in an Esquire article titled “Nobody Knows How to Play This Game Anymore”: “The bill…
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One Thing & Another — March 17, 2018
Word for the Wise Pinguid (PING-wid) – fat and oily. Here’s a lovely sentence from The Bunsby Papers by John Brougham that includes it alliteratively: “Peter was pinguid, plump, and plethoric – she was thin to…
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One Thing & Another — March 10, 2018
Word for the Wise Popinjay (POP-in-jay) – a strutting, supercilious person. Example from Ernest Hemingway: “If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and…
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One Thing & Another — March 3, 2018
Word for the Wise Retrodict (ret-roh-DIKT) – to use present information to explain or reinterpret or revise knowledge of the past. Example from Jamie Whyte in The Wall Street Journal: “Many are impressed by…
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One Thing & Another
Word for the Wise Pinguid (PING-wid) – fat and oily. Here’s a lovely sentence from The Bunsby Papers by John Brougham that includes it alliteratively: “Peter was pinguid, plump, and plethoric – she was thin to…
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