Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are complimentary and synergistic. However, it should be clear that only wisdom embodies the qualities of all three. It is possible to have an abundance of knowledge, deep understanding, and a complete lack of wisdom.
NAZI Germany (and successors totalitarian governments around the world today) demonstrated this gap most shockingly when it applied knowledge of what is [...]
America needs neither the terrifying tsunami of new programs overwhelming it from the White House nor the violent volcanic eruption of legislative magma and ash under which the Congress is burying us…can you say “DEBT?”
Some Americans voted for “change” during last years presidential sweepstakes - clearly a gamble. However, a very small but not inconsequential minority of far left politicians, union bosses at the [...]
An insigthful Money for Life Guide recently asked…
“There is one MFL concept I am interested in being better able to more fully understand, teach and implement. ‘Save from income and invest from assets.’ Basically, my understanding is to save from income, purchase assets with savings & leverage, and use the income from assets to…”
Your understanding contains two assumptions [...]
Ideas are strengthened when they are endorsed by informed experts. Gary Halbert has been proving for a very long time that the buy and hold strategy is flawed. Below is an excerpt from another of his brilliant articles on this topic.
Unspoken by Mr. Halbert but obvious from the article is the corollary that most Americans should not be [...]
By Benjamin Franklin and Dr Agon Fly
Having laid the groundwork for continuing his verbal treatise, Father Abraham translates the premises he’s postulated into a series of calls to action.
“Let us, then, up and be doing, and doing to the purpose;
These simplest of words carry profound meaning when it comes to you building your wealth. During [...]
“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” Gone With the Wind, 1938
Over the past 40 years I have been a money and financial advisor to small businesses, medical, legal, accounting, real estate and other professionals as well as executives, school teachers and brick layers - people from every profession and occupation it seems.
Occupation, social status, [...]
“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” The Graduate, 1967
Major consumer product retailers (one in particular), make-up and perfume makers, and every other advertiser to one extent or another, employs skinny models to sell their products. I was watching one of those ads on TV yesterday evening and it dawned on me that most [...]
“You talking to me?” Taxi Driver, 1976
Yes. Even if you haven’t a penny in the bank, I’m talking to you.
Pat was divorced early in life. He never fully recovered from the trauma and never remarried. Over the next 24 years, however, he became quite a successful salesman for an industrial supply company. He took what he [...]
04.16Luck And Money…
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” The Pride of the Yankees, 1942
The final proof of Money for Life,,,in good times and bad was sent to the printer today. Now the work of getting this amazing document that recalls the teachings of the world’s wisest financial minds from millennia [...]
Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
The 50 page leather bound financial plan that you receive from the well known company with the large advertising budget is at best a snapshot of a fantasy; it represents the “level of thinking” that [...]