Comments on: a little-too-late advice on building wealth

By: Rishikesh

Rishikesh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:04:23 +0000

Nice Post. . I really enjoy reading your articles and I love your writing style

By: Rishikesh

Rishikesh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:04:23 +0000

Nice Post. . I really enjoy reading your articles and I love your writing style

By: bripblap

bripblap — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:59:53 +0000

Yes, rhinokitty, I made the assumption that the actions I took led to the results that followed. I'm not sure why that would be interpreted as arrogant, exactly – it's just my take on things that helped me out to get where I am. It was a backward-looking post and hindsight's 20/20, of course.

By: rhinokitty

rhinokitty — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:28:19 +0000

What an arrogant post! Thanks for sharing your privileged perspective with the humble masses. You act as if these things CAUSED your success, but your logic is completely reliant on the assumption that because your success was chronologically followed by these things that you did, that these are what caused it.

By: A 19 Year Old from Texas

A 19 Year Old from Texas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:44:53 +0000

Thank you kindly for this post. I would like to press you further on the question of personal finance and education. I am taking a debt of about $12,000, spread over four years. With that debt, I am studying Economics, Mathematics and becoming fluent in Chinese. I am at a nationally known private college.

My goal in life is to build a great deal of wealth so that I can improve math and science education in this country, as well as the hardly edible food that is served (seriously–http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/11/2005). I never was taught Algebra, Chemistry, how to write an essay or take notes. However, I was taught how to avoid having to talk to the police if you saw someone getting stabbed at school. Although you may have Rousseau inclined views about education, in my view, education (especially higher education) gives a person a set of logical tools with which to invent new things or innovate old ones.

Given these, would my education still be worthless given the amount of debt I’m taking? It’s about as much as a car, and I don’t drive.

My e-mail’s joshua.moton@oberlin.edu if you would like to answer there.

By: DGG

DGG — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:13:15 +0000

Hi, Interesting advices, will u expalin more on (11)journal please..

Thanks…

By: Manish Kapoor

Manish Kapoor — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:56:24 +0000

“People are always looking for the newest way to earn cash for the least amount of work. ”

I don’t see anything wrong with this. We’re naturally energy-conserving creatures. I think we could all learn from Ben if we realize that working smarter, instead of harder, is the true meaning of being industrious. By conserving our energies and attention, we are being frugal.

It’s one of the foundations of the GTD philosophy: conserve.

Economically, its a natural behavior to strive to get more out than we put in; that was what the productivity boom of the ’90s was all about, and why a lot of white collar information workers kept their jobs. Everything we do, from technology, to education, to hard skills training, helps us get more accomplished with the same energy, thereby increasing our wealth.

Even the ancient stone masons had strict processes and methodologies, before one could even say there existed hard sciences, to improve the quality and speed of their work.

By: NikSan

NikSan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:50:22 +0000

Nice things you said there,
Its never too late to follow good practices

The right time is when you start following,
very useful ones,

Thanks!
niksan

By: alex

alex — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:24:17 +0000

Many thanx for the good approch and reading!
Greetings from Paris

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:41:29 +0000

Great article !
Everything i do since 1 year is related to that, including what i write on my blog.
We live in a society where thinking about the future equals nightmare. Everyone wants to enjoy his life right now and forget all the bad things that could happen later. We do not accept disease and risk but that’s life !
Thinking is the key.

By: Revue de presse | Simple Entrepreneur

Revue de presse | Simple Entrepreneur — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:25:00 +0000

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By: JEM

JEM — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:36:45 +0000

Thank you.

By: Steve (Brip Blap)

Steve (Brip Blap) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:22:23 +0000

Thanks everyone for following up with the votes!

By: fathersez

fathersez — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:21:12 +0000

Steve,

This is a great article.

I have not opened my google reader for about 10 days now and there are probably a couple of thousand posts outstanding, and this article of yours is a refreshing start to my reading schedule.

Thanks, and

PS: you got my vote

By: 7million7years

7million7years — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:34:27 +0000

BripBlap … you deserve to win this whole shebang … good luck!

I would add a couple of additional items:

14. Start a business or three … just for the ‘experience’, but, don’t get too upset if you make a ton

15. Buy a rental property or two … don’t live in it (yet) .. again, just for the experience of handling tenants and finances.

16. Read these books (in this order): Richest Man in Babylon; Rich Dad Poor Dad; The E-Myth Revisited; The Art of the Start … then STOP reading and START ACTING!