It’s All About Taking Losses
While most people focus on hitting financial benchmarks, increasing the quality of their friends and moving up in the game of life… to do so requires a lot of losses. It would be great to be Money...
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What Type of Intelligence Do You Have?
We have already beaten it into everyone’s heads. The only way to get *wealthy* is to start a Company. The only way to become well off is to go into Silicon Valley, Sales or Wall Street. The rest is...
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Personal Finance and Dating
Four ways to attract girls: 1) looks, 2) social skills – “game”, 3) relative status and 4) money. That breaks it down quite well. Instead of arguing about which one is “more important” we are going to...
View ArticleOverview of Leveraged Finance
We have not done an overview in quite some time and needed a post specific to Wall Street. This will elaborate a bit on our hedge fund posts and provide an overview for those that are interested in...
View Article$1 Million, 10 Years, Zero Excuses
We’ve gotten some mail regarding our requirement for posting here. Which is a $1M+ net worth and at least 5 years of front office experience. For some, this seems “impossible”. But. The math simply...
View ArticleIs Making Money Psychological?
While our more popular posts have detailed analytical explanations on how to increase income… this post is going to take on the qualitative side of the equation. It will be similar to our post on...
View ArticleAnalysis Paralysis: Damaging Your Net Worth and Future
We’ve been writing too much. The blog grew far too quickly and we’re receiving low quality questions that are being deleted at lightning speeds. Not a good sign. While many of the questions appear to...
View ArticleThings to Know for Your Thirties
We have gotten a lot of requests for a post on “rules for your thirties”. Unfortunately? There is no value in a post like that. Anyone who has succeeded is not going to be interested in a post on rules...
View ArticleWhat is a Regular Person?
Cutting straight to the point, a regular person is someone who should not bother reading this blog. They should immediately close the browser and go to a motivational seminar or spend their money on...
View ArticleGuest Post: Game and Business Intersections
***We have not had time to post and do not think the issue will be solved near term. That said, frequent commenter *RE Guy* may have an interest in blogging and we’re letting him run with his own guest...
View Article10 Free Copies of Gorilla Mindset
We’ve been busy to say the least. That said, we did get the chance to purchase our friend mike’s book “Gorilla Mindset”. The bad news? We are only 30 pages into it and will read it when business slows...
View ArticleHow to Play Dumb
***As noted in our Start Here section we are no longer answering any questions, only during sporadic Q&A’s for subscribers and once every quarter or so on Twitter*** Before we begin, everyone...
View ArticleRandom Musings and a Stream of Consciousness
***As noted in our Start Here section we are no longer answering any questions, only during sporadic Q&A’s for subscribers and once every quarter or so on Twitter*** We held a Twitter Q&A...
View ArticleHighlights from Twitter and Additional Details
We’ve received many requests for elongated explanations of some tweets so this won’t take us long. Below is a quick review of the top 10 tweets so far this year by numerous “twitter metrics”. We’ll go...
View ArticleSimple Examples of Thinking Differently.
There is nothing wrong with thinking like the masses in a survival situation. In reality, most people follow the herd because it is a survival instinct. If we dropped a random reader into a remote area...
View ArticleWhat is Rich?
While we no longer answer questions on this blog we continue to receive this one over and over again. We’ll go ahead and answer the question and as always, no one will agree on the definition. But....
View ArticleThe Brutal Truth About Friends
Everyone is trying to show the good side of their life. On Instagram people will take hundreds of photos in the exact same location and place the one out of 700 that match their “perfect life image”....
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Investment Banking Compensation 2015
We are updating compensation numbers for 2015. Excluded from this overview is investment banking analysts as the variability has decreased. Simply put an investment banking analyst should make $150,...
View Article2015 Review and 2016 Outlook
2015 is coming to an end. It has been the best year in history to make money. The best year in history to be single. And. The best year in history to start another company. 2016 is looking better than...
View ArticleHow to Have a Killer New Years Eve
Most people are amped up heading into the New Year. If you’ve been running full speed ahead all year, you likely had 2-4 days (even a week!) to recover from the effort you put into the year. Instead of...
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