What is success?

Written by roman on April 24, 2008 – 8:20 am -

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What is success?

At age 3, success is not peeing in your pants.

At age 16, success is “gettin’ a little”.

At age 25, success is graduation and a wedding.

At age 35, success is about career and family.

At age 55, success is about graduations and weddings.

At age 70, success is “gettin’ a little”.

At age 90, success is not peeing in your pants.

Never spend all your money - 6th of top 14 things you should start doing immediately to get rich

Written by roman on April 8, 2008 – 1:13 am -

Note: This is the fifth of 14 consecutive posts from 2nd to 15th of April about the principles of how to get rich. Check back daily or subscribe to the RSS feed

Credit card debt is an increasingly bigger problem in the US, Europe and parts of Asia. It seems that the convenience of buying something and paying for it afterwards in small payments is a luxury that is difficult to give a way.

In spite of hundreds of millions of credit card users there is however a substantial part of population who don’t use credit cards. If we take a closer look we will see, that these people mainly fall into 3 groups:

  1. People who have been in major credit card or other debt that have faced the difficulties of paying back their enormous debts. These people have promised themselves that they will never use a credit card or take a loan again. Most people who have managed to come out of tens of thousands of dollars of debt usually end up by cutting their cards.
  2. People who don’t trust banks or anybody but themselves to keep track of their money. A lot of Hispanics but also a good number of black and white people do the same. These people only use cash. For them cash truly is king,
  3. People who are determined to go through life without debt.

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Make a budget and stick to it - 5th of top 14 things you should start doing immediately to get rich

Written by roman on April 6, 2008 – 3:22 pm -

Note: This is the fifth of 14 consecutive posts from 2nd to 15th of April about the principles of how to get rich. Check back daily or subscribe to the RSS feed

Making a budget is one of the most important instruments that you can use in order to help you become rich.

The reason that a budget is so powerful is that it enables you to see into the future. If you make a good budget that you are able to stick to means that you know in advance how much money you are going to spend. And even better - you know what you will spend it on! Knowing your expenses let’s you come up with the sum that you can comfortably keep to yourself - the money that is going to make you rich.

There is nothing to be ashamed of when you are unable to exactly follow your budget for the first few times. As time moves on and you get more experience on making and following a budget it gets easier to stick to it. When making your first budget it can be easy to underestimate the amount of money you need for eating out, for spending quality time and so on.
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