“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great power around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” – Euripides I can still remember it to this day. I was in my tenth grade English class…
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh I have been thinking of writing this post for a long time. Since my very first post, this topic was front of mind. But I put it off. Again and again. Finding other topics to fill the pages. The…
Not sure what you were thinking I meant by the “c”-word, but I am of course referring to being…. “cheap”. Now before you answer that question, let’s be clear what we are talking about here. When I talk about being cheap, I am talking about being thrifty, or cost conscience. I am not talking about…
“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina Fake (founder of Flickr and Hunch) In case I have not been abundantly clear in my posts so far, getting rich is as much about expense control as it is about…
"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die." - Warren Buffet I’ve talked a lot about being a millionaire. And achieving that threshold is great, if you are able get there. But in many ways it is a pretty arbitrary number. For some, having a…
“The highest reward for your work is not what you get, but who you become.” – Alexander Green Do you mow your own lawn? You can tell a lot about a person by how they answer that question. The answer often provides a good clue about the size of their bank account and their attitudes…
“Two roads diverge in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost The Lemming Syndrome We are all in a race. We may not know it. But we are all contestants. A few of us have figured it out. And for…
“Compound Interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t…. pays it.” – Albert Eistein I met a good friend for lunch the other day. We get together every so often to shoot the breeze and catch up on life. As usual, my buddy was complaining about…