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Dear Reader, Not long after graduating from college, I took a job selling oceanfront condominiums in Florida. I had never worked in sales before, but this seemed like a good place to start. The units were beautiful. And there was no prospecting involved. Instead, the developer brought the ...
Everyone has his heroes. In my eyes, none living stands larger than 95-year-old Sir John Templeton. Templeton is not just a brilliant man, but a Rhodes Scholar. One of the world's undisputed money masters, magazines have described him as "one of the handful of true investment greats in a field ...
If you have nothing more than good health and the love and affection of your family, you have much to be grateful for. But take a moment, too, to marvel at how fortunate we are just to have been born in the modern era… Our ancestors four generations removed would marvel at contemporary life: ...
The Wolf In Monk's Robesnby Alexander Greenn This week more than 100 deaths were reported in Tibet, as the Chinese government cracked down on demonstrators in Lhasa demanding greater autonomy. In many ways, this is nothing new. In 1950, Chairman Mao Zedong ordered the "liberation" of Tibet. ...
Dear Reader, Frustrated with your job? Bored at home? Would you like your days to be filled with excitement, adventure and a strong sense of purpose? If so, you can volunteer to work alongside my nephew Conrad Schwalbe. Conrad is a U.S. marine in Iraq. Currently, he spends his days searching ...
Dear Reader, Not long ago, I was playing golf with a friend who is an atto ey. Between shots he began telling me how much he detested his job. "Why?" I asked. "You have to understand my business," he said with a huff. "My day basically consists of writing nasty letters on behalf of my ...
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness," the novelist Charles Dickens wrote. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." If that's too literary for your taste, an article in the New York Times ...
Why I Hope Steve Jobs Is Wrong nby Alexander Gree I have a confession to make. A small part of my stock portfolio is invested in companies that I love so much - and patronize so regularly - that I will probably never sell them. One of those companies is Apple. My shares are up more than ...
Dear Reader, Four years ago, I had a friend and former colleague who was going through a difficult divorce. (Is there any other kind?) He didn't want to separate from his wife, and he hated being apart from his two young daughters. In the midst of this, he walked into work one day and was ...
Courage means different things to different people. Hemingway called it "grace under pressure." The writer Anais Nin said that, "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Winston Churchill called it the greatest virtue "and the guarantor of all the others." There are different ...
Dear Reader, We don't usually think about it, but there is something much "deeper" about hearing than seeing, something that provokes a more powerful emotional response. In the era of silent movies, for example, a pianist was required to bring out the emotional significance of a love ...
Gentlemen, Stop Your Engines Dear Reader, While in France a couple years ago, I bumped into my colleague Addison Wiggin, an American publisher (and now filmmaker) who was living in Paris at the time. During our chat, he told me about a French co-worker who had just returned from her first ...
No One Is Blinder Than He Who Will Not Seenby Alexander Gree Last April in Washington D.C., a young man in blue jeans and a T-shirt emerged from the metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. He removed a violin from a small case, threw in a few dollars and pocket ...
Back in 1999, when the Internet bubble was in full swing, my investment firm announced plans to open the world's first Internet-based global trading website. Investors would have the ability to buy online virtually any stock, traded on any exchange in the world, 24 hours a day. On this exciting ...
Dear Reader, My friend Steve Sjuggerud, editor of True Wealth, used to call me occasionally to ask if I'd read any good business or investment books. Since both of us already had shelves groaning with them, it got tougher each year to find new ones offering any fresh insights. That was before ...
Dear Reader, Is it possible for a place to be spiritual? Not a church, a shrine or a tabe acle, but just an area of incredible natural beauty? I set out to answer that question last Friday when I drove south on Scenic Highway One from Monterey with my colleague Steven King. We were on our way ...
Several years ago, management consultant Dr. Gerald Kushel did a thorough study of America’s top executives. He found that a very small group – only 4% - rated themselves as “very satisfied” with both their personal and professional lives. I doubt many people were surprised to find that genuine ...