Every year, Warren Buffett holds an annual charity auction, and the person who bids the most money gets to have one steak lunch with him in New York. This past summer, Mr. Buffett held his 12th annual charity auction and according to a Wall Street Journal article, ”an anonymous Richie Rich pledged … $2.63 million to [...]
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Many people don’t think about why they should save for retirement, they go straight to assuming that they need to. Then they figure out how much they need to save in order to retire at the age that society tells you to retire. I was one of those people, until my friend Brian, who is evidently smart [...]
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This post will take you out of your comfort zone if you choose to act on it. However, I found that it was very educational for me, and I even got a free lunch out of it. What are you passionate about? What do you love to do? Since Biz Block, I have become very interested [...]
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The first day of class for my junior level finance course called for introductions of everyone in the class. Almost everyone in the class was a declared finance major, or double majoring in finance and something else. To me, this means that the field of finance is what they are passionate about, and the field [...]
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More money never solves problems. If you spend $300 on eating out every month and find yourself in a hole, a raise in your salary will not suddenly make your problem go away. Similarly, if you spend most of the day watching TV like my bum roommate, a 25th hour in the day won’t help [...]
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Whether you are trying to get an internship, get a job, get funded, or if you want you or your business to be remarkable, you are usually one in thousands of people trying to take the spot that you think should be rightfully yours. So how do you improve those chances of being that one [...]
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I just opened my first ING Direct Sub-Account, and timed it. It took me less than 1 minute. The process of opening up the sub-account was unclear to me at first, however, so I thought I’d look it up myself and give you step-by-step instructions on how to open one yourself. First let’s look into [...]
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Ramit Sethi’s (I Will Teach You To Be Rich) latest post called “How to Improve Your Financial Willpower” posted on the New York Times “Bucks” blog really showed just how lazy people are. Ramit shared a story about how 40 people went to a seminar about how low-flow shower heads save you money on your water bill [...]
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There are many ways to get your schoolbooks for next semester including: Amazon.com, Chegg.com, Half.com, and your campus bookstore. What I see happening is more and more lazy students who get in line to order and sell their textbooks at the campus bookstore because 1) they don’t know how much money they’re losing and/or 2) [...]
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An article I came across today from The Wisdom Journal is about 12 things Ron learned by 42, that he wished he knew at 22. Well the good news about this is that most of us are 22 or younger, so we get to learn from his mistakes. The reason I picked this article was [...]
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