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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 8:42 am |
@@@@@The poor and middle class try to own @@@@@The poor and middle class try to own everything and lose it to the government or to fellow citizens who like to sue the richThey learned it from the Robin Hood storyTake from the rich, give to the poor It is not the purpose of this book to go into the specifics of owning a corporation But I will say that if you own any kind of legitimate assets, I would consider finding out more about the benefits and protection offered by a corporation as soon as possibleThere are many books written on the subject that will detail the benefits and even walk you through the steps necessary to set up a corporationOne book in particular, Incand Grow Rich provides a wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations Financial IQ is actually the synergy of many skills and talentsBut I would say it is the combination of the four technical skills listed above that make up basic financial intelligenceIf you aspire to great wealth, it is the combination of these skills that will greatly amplify an individual's financial intelligence
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CHAPTER SIX Lesson Five:The Rich Invent Money
Last night, I took a break from writing and watched a TV program on the history of a young man named Alexander Graham BellBell had just patented his telephone, and was having growing pains because the demand for his new invention was so strongNeeding a bigger company, he then went to the giant at that time, Western Union, and asked them if they would buy his patent and his tiny companyHe wanted $100,000 for the whole packageThe president of Western Union scoffed at him and turned him down, saying the price was ridiculousA multi-billion-dollar industry emerged, and AT&T was born The evening news came on right after the story of Alexander Graham Bell endedOn the news was a story of another downsizing at a local companyThe workers were angry and complained that the company ownership was unfairA terminated manager of about 45 years of age had his wife and two babies at the plant and was begging the guards to let him talk to the owners to ask if they would reconsider his terminationHe had just bought a house and was afraid of losing itThe camera focused in on his pleading for all the world to | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 8:42 am |
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@@@@@ She was surprised to see that there was @@@@@ She was surprised to see that there was someone in the roomHer grandfather never had guestsThe man bowed, and she inclined her head"This is my lawyer, Mr Ring for Jerome, ScarlettHe'll show you to the drawing room, Jones Wait there until I send for youScarlett had hardly touched the bell pull before Jerome opened the door"Pull that chair up closer, ScarlettI have a great deal to say to you, and I don't want to strain my voice Scarlett was mystifiedThe old man had all but said "please He sounded kind of feeble, tooLord, I hope he's not getting ready to die on meI don't want to have to deal with Eulalie and Pauline at hisfuneralShe moved a chair to a spot near the head of the bedPierre Robillard studied her from under lowered eyelids "Scarlett," he said quietly when she was seated, "I am almost ninety-four years oldI am in good health, considering my age, but it is not likely in simple mathematics that I will live much longerI am asking you, my grandchild, to stay with me for the time I have left Scarlett started to speak, but the old man raised one thin hand to stop her"I haven't finished," he said"I do not appeal to your sense of family duty, even though I know that you have acted responsibly toward the needs of your aunts for many years"I am prepared to make you a fair offer, even a generous oneIf you will remain in this house as its chatelaine and see to my comforts and conform with my wishes, you will inherit my entire estate when I | | Friday, December 31st, 2010 | | 8:48 am |
@@@@@They were unpleasant when they brushed the @@@@@They were unpleasant when they brushed the skin wrongAnd my fingers were so long and thin–the added length of fingernails made them look strange She cleared her throat after a minute“I'm guessing my intuition was right I said her name slowly“Why did you keep your human name? Did it make you feel… more at one? With your host, I mean?” I would have liked to know about Curt's choice as well, but it was such a personal questionIt would have been wrong to ask anyone besides Curt for the answer, even his partnerI worried that I'd already been too impolite, but she laughed “Heavens, no, WandererHaven't I told you this? HmmMaybe not, since it's not my job to talk, but to listenMost of the souls I speak with don't need as much encouragement as you do Did you know I came to Earth in one of the very first placements, before the humans had any idea we were here? I had human neighbors on both sidesCurt and I had to pretend to be our hosts for several yearsEven after we'd settled the immediate area, you never knew when a human might be nearSoKathy just became who I wasBesides, the translation of my former name was fourteen words long and did not shorten prettilyThe sunlight slanting through the window caught her eyes and sent their silver green reflection dancing on the wall For a moment, the emerald irises glowed iridescent I'd had no idea that this soft, cozy woman had been a part of the front lineIt took me a minute to process thatI stared at her, surprised and suddenly more respectfulI'd never taken Comforters very seriously–never had a need before nowThey were for those who struggled, for the weak, and it shamed me to be hereKnowing Kathy's history made me feel slightly less awkward with he | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 8:40 am |
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@@@@@The only distinction is how far away from @@@@@The only distinction is how far away from the inside are you? The reason you want to have rich friends who are close to the inside is because that is where the money is madeIt's made on informationYou want to hear about the next boom, get in and get out before the next bustI'm not saying do it illegally, but the sooner you know, the better your chances are for profits with minimal riskThat is what friends are forAnd that is financial intelligenceMASTER A FORMULA AND THEN LEARN A NEW ONE: The power of learning quicklyIn order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their headThe same is true for making moneyThat's why money is often called "dough Most of us have heard the saying "You are what you eat I have a different slant on the same sayingI say, "You become what you study In other words, be careful what you study and learn, because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your headFor example, if you study cooking, you then tend to cookIf you don't want to be a cook anymore, then you need to study something else Let's say, a schoolteacherAfter studying teaching, you often become a teacherChoose what you study carefully When it comes to money, the masses generally have one basic formula they learned in schoolAnd that is, work for moneyThe formula I see that is predominant in the world is that every day millions of people get up and go to work, earn money, pay bills, balance checkbooks, buy some mutual funds and go back to workThat is the basic formula, or recipe If you're tired of what you're doing, or you're not making enough, it's simply a case of changing the formula via which you make money Years ago, when I was 26,1 took a weekend class called "How to Buy Real Estate Foreclosu | | Monday, December 27th, 2010 | | 8:42 am |
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“I wondered why you didn't answer the @@@@@ “I wondered why you didn't answer the question There was a pause while she waited for me to respond “So… why didn't you answer the question?” I turned around, not concealing the impatience on my face“Because it wasn't pertinent to the lesson, because Robert needs to learn some manners, and because it's no one else's business I swung my bag to my shoulder and headed for the doorShe stayed right beside me, rushing to keep up with my longer legsWe walked down the hallway in silenceIt wasn't until we were outside, where the afternoon sun lit the dust motes in the salty air, that she spoke again “Do you think you'll ever settle, Wanderer? On this planet, maybe? You seem to have an affinity for their… feelings I bridled at the implied insult in her toneI wasn't even sure how she meant to insult me, but it was clear that she didMelanie stirred resentfully “I'm not sure what you mean “Tell me something, WandererDo you pity them?” “Who?” I asked blankly“The Walking Flowers?” “No, the humans I stopped walking, and she skidded to a halt beside meWe were only a few blocks from my apartment, and I'd been hurrying in hopes of getting away from her, though likely as not, she'd invite herself inBut her question caught me off guardDo you pity them?” “Don't you?” “NoThey were quite the brutal raceThey were lucky to survive each other as long as they did “Not every one of them was bad “It was a predilection of their geneticsBrutality was part of their species | | Friday, December 24th, 2010 | | 8:40 am |
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pictures, it's @@@@@When it comes to things like pictures, it's always just someone's opinion, isn't it? I only knew that something was going on for meSometimes it felt a little scaryMostly it felt pretty goddam wonderful I did most of my drawing upstairs, in the room I'd come to think of as Little PinkThe only view from there was of the Gulf and that flat horizonline, but I had a digital camera and I took pictures of other things sometimes, printed them out, clipped them to my easel (which Jack and I turned so the strong afternoon light would strike across the paper), and drew that stuffThere was no rhyme or reason to those snapshots, although when I told Kamen this in an e-mail, he responded that the unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone 108 I drew my mailboxI drew the stuff growing around Big Pink, then had Jack buy me a book - Common Plants of the Florida Coast - so I could put names to my picturesNaming seemed to help - to add power, somehowBy then I was on my second box of colored pencilsand I had a third waiting in the wingsThere was aloe vera; sea lavender with its bursts of tiny yellow flowers (each possessing a tiny heart of deepest violet); inkberry with its long spade-shaped leaves; and my favorite, sophora, which Common Plants of the Florida Coast also identified as necklace-bush, for the tiny podlike necklaces that grow on its branchesThere were shells everywhere, an eternity of shells just within my limited walking distanceDuma Key was made of shells, and soon I'd brought back dozens And almost every night when the sun went down, I drew the sunsetI knew sunsets were a cliché, and that's why I did themIt seemed to me that if I could break through that wall of been-there-donethat even once, I might be getting somewhereSo I piled up picture after picture, and none of them looked like muchI tried overlaying Venus Yellow 109 with Venus Orange again, but subsequent efforts didn't workThe sullen furnace-glow was always missingEach sunset was only a penciled piece of shit where the colors said I'm trying to tell you the horizon's on fireYou could undoubtedly have bought forty better ones at any sidewalk art show on a Saturday in Sarasota or Venice BeachI saved some of those drawings, but I was so disgusted with most of them that I threw them away One evening after another bunch of failures, once again watching the top arc of the sun disappear, leaving that flush of Halloween color trailing behind, I thought: It was the shipThat was what gave my first one a little sip of magic | | Saturday, December 18th, 2010 | | 8:42 am |
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“Yes, but DeSole did because he’d sold @@@@@ “Yes, but DeSole did because he’d sold out; he was part of itHe had to have been alertedWe’ve been penetratedSome maniac says he’s going to expose us, blow us apart You told me yourself that panic buttons were punched from the Trade Commission to Pentagon Procurements to the embassy in London “They were punched,” agreed Conklin“So hard that two of them had to be taken out along with Teagarten and our disgruntled MoleSnake Lady’s elders quickly decided who their vulnerable people wereBut where does Carlos or Bourne fit in? There’s no attribution “I thought we agreed that there was “DeSole?” Conklin shook his head“It’s a provocative thought, but it doesn’t washHe couldn’t have presumed that I knew about Medusa’s penetration because we hadn’t even started it “But when you did, the sequence had to bother him if only in the sense that although they were poles apart, one crisis followed too quickly upon anotherWhat was it? A matter of hours?” “Less than twenty-four Still, they were poles apart “Not for an analyst’s analyst,” countered Holland“If it walks like an odd duck and sounds like an odd duck, look for an odd duckI submit that somewhere along the line DeSole made the connection between Jason Bourne and the madman who had infiltrated Medusa—the new Medusa “For Christ’s sake, how?” “I don’t knowMaybe because you told us Bourne came out of the old Saigon Medusa—that’s one hell of a connection to begin with “My God, you may be right,” said Alex, falling back on the couch“The driving force we gave our unnamed madman was that he’d been cut off from, the new MedusaI used the words myself with every phone call‘He’s spent years putting it toget | | Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 | | 8:40 am |
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I almost dropped the creepy little thing on @@@@@ I almost dropped the creepy little thing on the floor, where it surely would have shattered on the tiles "Just me, Elizabeth," I called back, laying the figure on the counter "Edmund? Or Edgar, or whatever your name is?" "Right I went back into the parlor "Did you take care of that business of mine?" "Yes, ma'am, I sure did "Have I had my snack yet?" "Yes "Do you want something else? I'm sure I could-" "No thanks, honI'm sure the train will be here soon, and you know I don't like to travel on a full stomachI always end up in one of the backwards seats and with food in my stomach I 371 should certainly be train-sickHave you seen my tin, my Sweet Owen tin?" "I think it was in the kitchenShould I bring it?" "Not on such a wet day," she said"I thought I'd have you throw her in the pond, the pond would do, but I've changed my mindIt seems unnecessary on such a wet dayThe quality of mercy is not strained, you knowIt droppeth like the gentle rain "From heaven," I said She flapped her hand as if that part were of no matter "Why don't you arrange your chinas, Elizabeth? They're all mixed up today She cast a glance at the table, then looked at the window when an especially strong gust of wind slapped it with rain"I'm so fucking confused And then, with a spite I would not have guessed she had in her: "They all died and left me to this I was the last one to be repulsed by her lapse into vulgarity; I understood it too wellMaybe the quality of mercy isn't strained, there are 372 millions of us who live and die by the idea, but we have things like this waiting She said, "He never should have got that thing, but he didn't kno | | Monday, December 6th, 2010 | | 8:55 am |
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