Archive for January, 2007

It’s how big you make the pie

One of the ideas about being successful is that there is a limited “pie” in any field of commerce or endeavor, and that you need to “grab your piece of the pie” before others do, or take it away if they already have “made their mark.” In the book Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman, [...]

Become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it.

Many of us grew up with some very negative images of what “millionaires” or “rich people” are like, their values and the tone of their character. The photo is Alastair Sim in A Christmas Carol (1951) as Scrooge, described by Charles Dickens in his novel as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! [...]