People will pay more to be entertained than educated. Johnny Carson Charles T. Munger Harvard School Commencement Speech June 13, 1986 Now that Headmaster Berrisford has selected one of the oldest and longest-serving trustees to make a commencement speech, it behooves the speaker to address two questions in every mind: I will answer the first […]
Prescriptions for Guaranteed Misery in Life
You know that Johnny Cash song If Been Everywhere where he lists all the places he’s been? Or at least a good number of them. Well this is my list of all the books I’ve read. Or at least a good number of them. Worth mentioning, mostly over the course of 15+ years. Knowledge doesn’t
I Read Everything Man (A List of Almost All the Books I’ve Read)
Time. That’s it. Everything revolves around time. You can make more money you can’t make more time. Once a second, a minute, an hour, a month, a year is gone it’s gone, there’s no getting it back. Think of it this way. Each day you receive 86,400 second. How to choose to invest those seconds
You know that saying that you are the average of the five people you spend most time with. Well what happens if you want to level up your life and all the people around you are 9-5ers or even worse? Your so called average won’t go very far. So what can you do? I have
Certainty Uncertainty/Variety Significance Connection/Love Growth Contribution
The 6 Needs of Every Human Being
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it. Albest Einstein The Rule of 72 is a quick and easy way to calculate the proximate time or number of periods it takes for your investments to double up with the help of
Our lives are primarily shaped by the decisions we make. We make millions of decisions throughout the course of our lives. Some needless to say are less important than others. What to wear on any given day is a decision. What to eat is another. And making these types decisions takes time. The more of
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement
The average millionaire has 7 income streams and most of those are passive or semi-passive income streams. The following quote from Warren Buffett is quite revealing. If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. Warren Buffett Retirement is not a matter of age any more,
The #1 Secret To Financial Independence
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy. Warren Buffett
I love biographies. They are some of my favorite books to read. I feel that you get so much actionable knowledge out of them. The Real Deal from Brick Lane to Dragon’s Den is the biography of James Caan who was a cast member of the TV show Dragon’s Den which is the UK version
The Real Deal – My Story from Brick Lane to Dragon’s Den
