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Radical Way to Think About Money According to 4 Hour Workweek

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:26:58 +0000

I finally had some down time and decided to read the 4 Hour Workweek. If you haven’t heard of this book you must be living under a rock because it has been a New York Best Sellers list for a damn long time. My main reason for reading the book was to see how I can use the principles to grow my business and reduce my workload. What I got out of it is a new way to think about money.

According to Timothy Ferris the goal of a business or any individual is not to make money, or to go for “success” but to make enough to do whatever it is they would be doing if money was of no concern. I could not agree with him more.
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My Personal Finance Philosophy

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:43:27 +0000

Sometimes I feel like a scam artist for writing a blog about personal finance without really explaining how I feel about money. Before I get into the details I want to give a little background about myself, since it is the basis behind my beliefs.

My folks immigrated here ( United States) when I was 8 years old. We were fairly well off in our homeland by the standards at the time, as well off as you can be in a communist state. When we arrived here we were what most people would consider poor. It took many years, but my family has been able to reach a much higher level through hard work, persistence and education. Since I know what it is like to be poor and what it is like to have steady money I have had a very rocky relationship with money.
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Follow Your Favorite Portfolio

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:02:17 +0000

Sorry for the short post, but sometimes things are better when they are brief (don’t tell the search engines that). Anyway I just got an email from Thrillist which surprised me. Usually they send emails about cool happenings in your city and new services that are springing up. However, today they mentioned a new site called Covestor, get it Co and Investor together ( let me guess coinvestor.com was taken ).

Here is what Covestor is all about.

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