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[3 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 269 views]

As we grow up, we are often told by our parents and peer groups to go to school, get good grades, enjoy education and to get a good and secure job at a company. We strive to gain wealth by working hard, and fighting for promotions and salary raises. At the same time, we try to get ourselves comfortable lives: a nice apartment, a car, fashionable clothing, and good lifestyle in general. We use credit cards and loans to finance things for which we do not yet have money readily …

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[15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 103 views]
Reuters’ Website Makeover

There are many resources available on the internet, covering news, industries, stocks, markets, currencies, analysis and options, and much more. In the jungle of the internet, it is not only hard to find a resource, which is truly reliable and offers a high quality of data, but it is just as difficult to find a resource which is easy to understand and navigate.
About a year ago, I had started using Reuters for reading the news and researching companies. However, the site was not very easy to navigate, and at a certain …

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 51 views]

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell takes a closer look at what makes people so successful, and why. In an entertaining and well written way, Outliers explains the relationships between hard work, ambition, passion, and pure luck, using many real-life examples, such as that of Bill Gates. All examples and theories described in the book are the result of extensive research.

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 43 views]

Knowing how to read financial statements is the absolute key to analyzing the health and potential of corporations. Mary Buffett and David Clark have written this book to help readers find their way through the maze of financial statements.

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 45 views]

“In a world of more than six billion people, there are only 587 billionaires” are the first words the book starts with. But what does it take to belong to that so much desired exclusive club?
In his book Think Like a Billionaire – Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life, Donals Trump litterally takes the reader inside the mind of one of world’s most famous billionaires: himself. With his colloquial writing style, Donals quickly fascinates the reader and introduces him/her into the world of real estate, attorneys, marriage, …