Lookin’ for Luck in All the Wrong Places
The Irish are a very superstitious lot. They believe a black cat voluntarily following you home brings good luck, but bringing a black cat home, or even moving one with...
The Price of Negligence
In my relentless search for I don’t know what, I found an article in the December 1, 2008 edition of Nation’s Restaurant News, the trade journal of the restaurant industry,...
“How To Get Rich In ‘Un-Rich Times’”
In the Renegade Millionaire System, I dispense this advice: #1: BE the Wizard, #2: BEWARE the Wizard. Wizards are very powerful, so it is better to be one than to...
Two Sword-In-The-Stone Secrets
How To Make More Money Than Ever When OthersAre Stymied And Struggling My newest book, No B.S. Wealth Attraction In The New Economy is all about making yourself magnetic to money, in...
If You Want More,Make Yourself More Valuable
The mayor of a small town once wrote to Benjamin Franklin asking for a donation so the town could buy a bell for its town square. Franklin sent money with...
There Are Two Basic Ways
There are two basic ways people can react, when they are have-not’s, observing have’s; when they are not doing nearly as well as some others in their field, industry or...
Mystery Solved
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”----said Sherlock Holmes. You are presumably reading this because you are intrigued – for self-interest, not just academic exercise – with the...
How To Make A Lot More Money, Fast
Odds are, your business lost a lot of customers last year. There are holes in your bucket. And odds are, you can’t say for sure how many you lost, who...
Watch The News. Make News.
I happen to be a politics junkie and, therefore, a news junkie. I even write political columns, so I have to pay attention daily. But I learned years ago that...
What Might Be Drawn Out, Not What More Can We Stuff In
There is an old joke about the Farm Bureau agent trying to convince the grizzled farmer to attend the upcoming educational conference being put on by the Bureau. The resistant...
Deposits. Withdrawals.
I am ex-boozer. For a while, after quitting, I had to decide not to have a drink every day. Now it’s on rare occasions that I consciously decide not to. I...
Now Is The Time To Do It Differently
“Help! – I Can’t Get Out Of The Box I Put Myself In!” The fast-food industry got the idea for drive-in windows from banks. I guess there was a McDonald's executive...
If Your Income’s Not Where You Want It, There’s A Reason
One of my earliest mentors had his office walls adorned top to bottom, side to side, with big, handwritten signs intended as cautions to others as well as reminders for...
Will ‘The Secret Millionaire’ Arrive At Your Door?
Not If You’re Sitting Around Waiting For Him A new TV program, loosely swiped from a TV show of long ago, debuts tonight on Fox. As I understand it, in “The...
What Will You Accept?
He Smashed His Head Bloody Pounding It On His Locker Door –And Broke Off Two Teeth Biting On It. You may recall a story like that from Dan Jenkins’ football...
The Complaint Department
Every year back spring comes, with nasty little birdsyapping their fool heads off and the ground all muckedup with plants. So said: (a) W.C. Fields or (b) Dorothy Parker or...